Abstract

Objectives In this study, by applying the latent growth model, the variables that affect middle school students' real delinquency by dividing them into individual variables such as gender, friend relationships, teacher relationships, and parenting attitudes. Methods Using the data from the 1st panel of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS), the latent growth model was applied to estimate the change in middle school students' real delinquency over time and to find out the contemporaneous and lagged effects of variables affecting it. SPSS 26.0 was used for technical statistics, and the research model was analyzed as Mplus 7.4(Muthén & Muthén, 1997-2019). Results First of all, if you look at the key analysis results, first, as the grade increased, middle school students' real delinquency increased It turned out to be decreasing again. Second, at the time of the second year of middle school, there was a contemporaneous effect that parenting attitudes had a negative effect on real delinquency. The parenting attitude of middle school 1st grade showed a lagged effects that positively affected the real delinquency of middle school 2nd grade. Third, as a predictive variable that affects the growth change of real delinquency over the three years, It was found that gender did not contemporaneous effect the initial value and rate of change of real delinquency. Conclusions The study is significant in that it analyzed the contemporaneous and lagged effect between variables through analysis of changes in real delinquency according to the grades of 1st to 3rd graders using large-scale panel data from the Korean Youth and Children Panel to confirm the influence of lagged variables.

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