School crime and disruption as a function of student-school fit: An empirical assessment.
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چکیده
A theoretical model is described which conceptualizes school crime and disruption as a function of the congruence or fit between the personal characteristics of students and the social environments of the schools they attend. In a direct empirical test of the model, indices representing 10 distinct dimensions of student-school fit are related to three composite measures of school misconduct: school crime, school avoidance, and class misbehavior. A number of significant relationships are found between dimensions of student-school fit and the three indices of school misbehavior, several of which manifest one of the nonlinear forms specified by the model, providing at least modest support for a person-environment fit theory of school crime and disruption.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of youth and adolescence
دوره 9 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1980