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Title	The role of parenting in the development of antisocial behavior.
CitationType	Conf/Post/Speak
Category	Conference Paper
Authors	Lin, Z.
Year	1999
Month	Nov
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Presented	Presentation to 1999 American Society of Criminology Conference, November 16-20, Toronto.
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Abstract	The purpose of this research project is to explore how children's individual traits as well as their interaction with the social process factors, such as family and school environment affect the development of their anti-social behaviour. our preliminary findings from 4 to 11-year-old sample of children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) suggest that such traits as temperament are closely correlated with antisocial behaviour. The correlation coefficient is .40 between the variables emotional disorder and aggressive behaviour in the 4-11 year old children; .457 between hyperactivity and aggression; .44 between emotional disorder and property offenses; and .465 between hyperactivity and property offenses. These positive correlations indicate that children with the individual level traits are more likely to become delinquents than other children. These facts lead to questioning the important assumption made previously by many researchers that children's anti- social conduct is entirely learned behaviour. In fact, it seems that individual, biological, genetic and developmental factors play a far more important role in the formation of such behaviour than previously appreciated. Indeed, contemporary theorists suggest that sociopathy may well have a developmental if not a genetic basis (see Mealey, 1995; Wilson, 1993: 98).
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