Life strain, coping, and delinquency in the People's Republic of China: an empirical test of general strain theory from a matching perspective in social support |
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Authors: | Bao Wan-Ning Haas Ain Pi Yijun |
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Institution: | Department of Sociology, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. wbao@iupui.edu |
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Abstract: | Using a sample of 615 middle- and high-school students from rural and urban areas of the People's Republic of China, this study tests the effects of coping strategies predicted by Agnew's (1992) general strain theory (GST), in which the impact of strain on delinquency is conditioned by adolescents' social and personal resources. Results provide support for the coping strategies hypotheses posited by GST, in a non-Western culture. Social supports in the three major domains of family, school, and peer group have cross-domain and within-domain buffering effects on the relationships between juvenile delinquency and interpersonal problems in these domains, and moral beliefs have all-domain buffering effects. Girls are more likely to use cross-domain support resources in managing interpersonal problems, whereas boys are more susceptible to delinquent peers in their adaptation to interpersonal strain in all domains. The implications of the findings to intervention were discussed. |
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