Quality of life and mental well-being as preventive factors towards the occurrence of juvenile delinquency among Malaysian adolescents
Juvenile delinquency is a complex problem that affects the individual's social community and eventually the society as a whole. Despite the common knowledge and understanding of risk factors, the identified number of juvenile delinquency cases in Malaysia are at high influx with interventions t...
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my.sunway.eprints.29942024-08-06T00:20:55Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2994/ Quality of life and mental well-being as preventive factors towards the occurrence of juvenile delinquency among Malaysian adolescents Mimi, Fitriana Wood, Megan Wu, Shin Ling * Ching, Sin Siau BF Psychology HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare RJ Pediatrics Juvenile delinquency is a complex problem that affects the individual's social community and eventually the society as a whole. Despite the common knowledge and understanding of risk factors, the identified number of juvenile delinquency cases in Malaysia are at high influx with interventions to decrease its occurrence indicating the possible predicting preventive factors that have yet been investigated. Therefore, this paper aimed to compare the occurrence of juvenile delinquency in adolescents, in Kuala Lumpur, within the range of low and high quality of life as well as poor and good mental well-being. A causal-comparative design was used to identify the predicting preventive factors for juvenile delinquency among adolescents through the administration of Family Quality of Life Scale (FQOL), Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS), and Self-Reported Delinquency to 224 respondents using a purposive sampling technique. Independent Samples t-test revealed the significant differences between the low and high group of quality of life, poor and good mental well-being, and gender differences. The regression model showed mental well-being as a significant predictor to prevent the occurrence of juvenile delinquency among adolescents. Implications of these findings contributed to the development of modules and interventions of preventing strategies for the delinquent behaviors. © 2022 Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina. All rights reserved. Silpakorn University Research Innovation and Creativity Administration Office 2022 Article PeerReviewed Mimi, Fitriana and Wood, Megan and Wu, Shin Ling * and Ching, Sin Siau (2022) Quality of life and mental well-being as preventive factors towards the occurrence of juvenile delinquency among Malaysian adolescents. Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 22 (1). pp. 174-184. ISSN 2630-0079 https://doi.org/10.14456/hasss.2022.16. 10.14456/hasss.2022.16. |
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Juvenile delinquency is a complex problem that affects the individual's social community and eventually the society as a whole. Despite the common knowledge and understanding of risk factors, the identified number of juvenile delinquency cases in Malaysia are at high influx with interventions to decrease its occurrence indicating the possible predicting preventive factors that have yet been investigated. Therefore, this paper aimed to compare the occurrence of juvenile delinquency in adolescents, in Kuala Lumpur, within the range of low and high quality of life as well as poor and good mental well-being. A causal-comparative design was used to identify the predicting preventive factors for juvenile delinquency among adolescents through the administration of Family Quality of Life Scale (FQOL), Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS), and Self-Reported Delinquency to 224 respondents using a purposive sampling technique. Independent Samples t-test revealed the significant differences between the low and high group of quality of life, poor and good mental well-being, and gender differences. The regression model showed mental well-being as a significant predictor to prevent the occurrence of juvenile delinquency among adolescents. Implications of these findings contributed to the development of modules and interventions of preventing strategies for the delinquent behaviors. © 2022 Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina. All rights reserved. |
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