Background : Increasing juvenile delinquency has developed as a social problem and adolescent in tis characteristics has tendency not to exposure their problems to physician. For early detection and anticipatory guidance of juvenile delinquency by finding predictive factors of delinquency, we are intended to investigate into the correlation between juvenile delinquency and predictive factors of juvenile delinquency.
Methods : A self-reported questionnaire survey was conducted on 1,266 high school students in Kangnam-Ku, Seoul, from March to May 1994. We made statistical analysis of the family APGAR score, demographic data and delinquency score by means of correlation and multiple regression.
Demographic factors include age, sex, family income, deucational status of parents, and pocket money indicating family background and examination rank indicating their achievement in school.
Results : The factors significantly associated with juvenile delinquency score were pocket money (r=0.508), age(r=0.428), family APGAR score(r=0.367), and examination rank(r=0.281) and R² was 0.44 Compared with female students, male students were significantly high in delinquency score.
Conclusion : Tendency of juvenile delinquency was significantly high in male students, and was related with age, much pocket money, low family APGAR score, low exmination rank in this study.