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DOES GENERAL STRAIN THEORY ACCOUNT FOR YOUTH DEVIANCE IN TURKEY

Özden Özbay

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This study was aimed to explore whether General Strain Theory accounted for youth deviance in Turkey.The theory was tested by using a sample of 974 undergraduate university students in a correlational study.Youth deviance included piracy, bribery, and cheating.Of the total twelve strain variables used, half of them were statistically significant and had expected positive influences on the dependent variables.Anger was positively correlated only with one dependent variable.Most criminal and non-criminal coping variables had expected impacts on the deviant behavior.Overall, data gave some support for GST.Future tests of General Strain Theory should use more negative emotions, utilize an index of strain, be tested with males and females

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This study was aimed to explore whether General Strain Theory accounted for youth deviance in Turkey.The theory was tested by using a sample of 974 undergraduate university students in a correlational study.Youth deviance included piracy, bribery, and cheating.Of the total twelve strain variables used, half of them were statistically significant and had expected positive influences on the dependent variables.Anger was positively correlated only with one dependent variable.Most criminal and non-criminal coping variables had expected impacts on the deviant behavior.Overall, data gave some support for GST.Future tests of General Strain Theory should use more negative emotions, utilize an index of strain, be tested with males and females

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This study was aimed to explore whether General Strain Theory accounted for youth deviance in Turkey.The theory was tested by using a sample of 974 undergraduate university students in a correlational study.Youth deviance included piracy, bribery, and cheating.Of the total twelve strain variables used, half of them were statistically significant and had expected positive influences on the dependent variables.Anger was positively correlated only with one dependent variable.Most criminal and non-criminal coping variables had expected impacts on the deviant behavior.Overall, data gave some support for GST.Future tests of General Strain Theory should use more negative emotions, utilize an index of strain, be tested with males and females

Key concepts: General strain theory, Deviance (statistics), Anger, Psychology, Cheating, Social psychology, Coping (psychology), Statistics

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