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Anti-social behavior in groups
Bauer, Michal ; Cahlíková, J. ; Celik Katreniak, D. ; Chytilová, Julie ; Cingl, L. ; Želinský, T.
This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decisionmaking in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a group with randomly assigned peers increases the prevalence of anti-social behavior that reduces everyone’s payoff but which improves the relative position of own group. The effects are driven by the influence of a group context on individual behavior, rather than by group deliberation. The observed patterns are strikingly similar on both continents.
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Antisocial behavior of adolescents and its relationship to dimensions of Five factor model of personality
Sobotková, Veronika ; Blatný, Marek ; Jelínek, Martin
Antisocial behavior essential type of risk behavior in adolescence. The incidence, seriousness, and typical symptoms are solved in particular in relation to demographic variables - age, sex, size of place of residence. Relatively few studies deal with the relationship between antisocial behavior and personality traits. In this study, we focused on the relationship between the Big Five dimensions and antisocial behavior. Research was conducted with a sample of high school students (N = 108, 51% girls). We used antisocial behavior scale from the SAHA questionnaire (Social and Health Assessment, for personality traits we used the NEO-FFI questionnaire. Analyses were made separately for girls and boys. For both genders, antisocial behavior is consistently associated with Conscientiousness. Another factors have different connections with antisocial behavior for boys and girls. The results support the hypothesis of a different aetiology of antisocial behavior in boys and girls.
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Development of child and juvenile delinquency in Prachatice district from year 1997 to 2007.
HESOUN, Václav
The bachelor thesis presents the topic of trends and development in child and juvenile delinquency in Prachatice distrikt from year 1997 to 2007.The theoretical part provils the analysis of ganges in criminal legislativ focusing on young people in the historici kontext of the development of the Czech Republic. Next, by using specialized literature, it analyzes the perticular influences, for example heredity, family influence and some other sociopathological phenomena, which contribute to the origins and development of this distinctive kind of kriminality. The end of the theoretical part deals with prevntion and cooperation between the Police of the Czech Republic and educational authorities, state child protective service and the Probation and Mediation Service.The practical part of the bachelors thesis oves an analysis and evaluation of statistical data about all child and juvenilie criminal aktivity in the Czech Republic, the South Bohemian Region and Prachatice distrikt from 1997 to 2007, in comparison with the total criminal aktivity in these areas. The practical part also presents statistics of trends and development in criminal aktivity of children and juveniles in the Czech Republic, the South Bohemian Region and Prachatice district. Next, this part provils evaluations of individual periods focusing on the development of kinds of crimes and compares the number of the crimes committed by children and juveniles with the total number of crimes commited in Prachatice district.
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Relation of antisocial behavior of adolescents to school environment
Sobotková, Veronika ; Blatný, Marek ; Hrdlička, M. ; Jelínek, Martin ; Květon, Petr ; Vobořil, Dalibor ; Urbánek, Tomáš
The study deals with relation between antisocial behavior in adolescence and school environment. The Social and Health Assessment (SAHA), a school survey, was administered to a nationwide sample of 4,980 adolescents in three age cohorts (12, 14, and 16 years) in Prague and 12 regional capitals of the Czech Republic. In present study we focus on cohorts of 12 and 14 years old adolescents (N = 3023). K-means cluster analysis on the items of Antisocial Behavior Scale was used to identify the main clusters of antisocial behavior. Four major clusters of children were identified. Subsequently, adolescents from different clusters were compared on the levels of their attachment to school, school climate, perceived support from teachers and general motivation to study. As we expected, adolescents from the cluster with high rate of antisocial behaviors perceive the school environment as the most negative.
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