Externalizing problems and delinquent behaviors in residential-care male adolescents: associations with peer attachment and alexithymia
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Abstract
Male teenagers in residential-care (RC) show high rates of externalizing problems, such delinquent behaviors. Research findings underlined that peer attachment may have a protective role on the social adjustment of \nadolescents, while higher levels of alexithymia —defined as an emotional regulation disorder (Taylor, 2004)— may be a risk factors for externalizing problems. Due to their previous adverse experiences, RC adolescents may show \ndifficulties in both, although they live with peers. As no study done it before, this pilot study investigated the associations among peer attachment, alexithymia and externalizing and delinquent problems in 21 boys aged 13-18 years (M = 16.33, SD = 1.4) placed in residential-care. \nMeasures were: 1) the Youth Self Report 11/18 (YSR) to measure Externalizing problems and delinquent behaviors; 2) the Inventory of Peer and Parent Attachment (IPPA) to assess the levels of Peer attachment, and 3) The Toronto \nAlexithymia Scale (TAS-20) to detect alexithymia. Results showed expected associations among higher levels of alexithymia and Externalizing (rs = .447, p = .04) and delinquent (rs = .464, p = .03) problems, which show unexpected positive correlations also with peer attachment \n(Externalizing: rs = .600, p = .009; delinquent: rs = .629, p = .005). In addition, a multiple regression accounted only peer attachment as predictor of higher levels of externalizing problems (adjusted-R2 = .36 p = .005) and delinquent behaviors (adjusted-R2 = .32 p = .009). Authors \ndiscussed the potential utility to monitoring the quality of peer-attachment in potentially high-risk contexts like residential ones, whereas it may elicit or perpetuate delinquent conducts among adolescents instead of promoting \nsocial adjustment. The role of attachment and emotional regulation for residential adolescents psychopathology is deepen investigate into this larger study, using also clinical interviews such FFI and TSIA.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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