Within-Individual Differences in Offending from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: A Modified Theoretical Approach to Understanding Academic Achievement and Delinquency
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2016

Motivated by General Strain Theory (GST), the project examines school strains and their effects on offending from adolescence to young adulthood.The project develops an extensive GST model, testing multiple measures of school strain (controlling for strains from multiple domains), coping mechanisms, and negative emotionality.I expand the traditional GST framework by adding measures of subjective meaning to the interpretation of strain.While the concept of subjective meaning has been suggested pr