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The Correlation between Methods of Parental Punishment and the Patterns of Juvenil Delinquency: A Survey Study among a Sample of Stuendts at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University and King Saud University in Riyadh
Auther : Mushabab Said AL-Qhatani
The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is a correlation between the patterns of juvenile behavior towards delinquencey by using a social survey with a questionnaire among a sample of 595 male students. The findings of this study had confirmed that there were no significant differences between the sample opinions according to the means and standard deviations with repsect to the correction of wrong behavior of the parental punishment, the contradiction in parental punishment, the parental rejection, the parental supervision and control and the pattenrs of jubenile behacior towards delinquencey.
The study results also revealed that there was a staitistically significant correlation between most of the variables, such as the strongest correlation (0.715**) that existed between the parental control method of punishment to correct the children's behavior and the contradiction method of punishment.
According to the results of "T-test", the study also found that there was no statistivally significant differences between the students' opinions of both Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University and King Saud University with respect to the "five variables"; the correlation between the methods of parental punishment and the patterns of juvenile behavior indicated that many of the parental punishment inflicted on children might possibley lead to future behavioral deviation among children and eventually to juvenile delinquency and crime.
Keywords: Correct behavior, Contradiction, Supervisory, Parental punishment, Juvenile delinquencey, Riyadh.