Process of socialization and mood’s symptoms in incarcerated juvenile offenders

This paper deals with the relationship existing between sociodemographic variables and symptomatic mood changes from Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in a sample obtained from incarcerated juvenile offenders. The sample was composed of 90 inmate males, convicted in the Penitentiary Centre of Seville...

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Autores: Herrero Remuzgo, Salvador, León Fuentes, José Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/132545
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/132545
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mood
Juvenile Offenders
Incarcerated
Process of Socialization
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Sumario:This paper deals with the relationship existing between sociodemographic variables and symptomatic mood changes from Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in a sample obtained from incarcerated juvenile offenders. The sample was composed of 90 inmate males, convicted in the Penitentiary Centre of Seville (Spain). All of them are from 18 to 25 years old, with an average of 21.4 years old (DT=1.96). The results evidence that the main factors to predict criminal behaviour in young people are the following: urban origin (58.9%), lack of family members (47.8%), large family (63.3%), low individual educational level (21.1%) low educational level in family members (57.2%) and low income. Our information also demonstrates that sociodemographic variables have an influence on the development of mood symptoms in criminal youngsters who are inmates in any prison.