REMEMBERED RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS, AGGRESSION AND SELF ESTEEM OF JUVENILE PRISONERS

Abstract

Objectives: Juvenile delinquency is increasing in epidemic portion in Pakistan, to understand this drift the present study was designed to investigate association between remembered relationship with parents, aggression and self-esteem, and differences between male juvenile prisoners who come in contact with the justice system, and their age matched controls on the variables of remembered relationship with parents, aggression, and self-esteem as well as demographic factors like monthly family income, number of sibling and education were also studied

Place and duration of Study: The study was carried out at Department of Applied Psychology, University of Punjab, Lahore-Pakistan over a period of 6 months.

Hypotheses: It was hypothesized that there exists significant association between remembered relationship with parents, aggression and self-esteem. It was further hypothesized that there exists significant difference between juvenile prisoners and their matched controls on remembered relationship with parents, aggression, self-esteem and demographic factors like monthly family income, number of siblings and education.

Method: Non probability purposive sampling technique was used  to collect data over a period of 6 months. 25 male juvenile prisoners sentenced in Central Jail Lahore and 25 community age matched controls comprised of the study sample. 10 item Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965), 10-item Remembered Relationship with Parents Scale (Denollet et al., 2006) and a self constructed Aggression Questionnaire in indigenous language based on Aggression Scale (Buss & Perry, 1992) was used for measuring the study variables. Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Remembered Relationship with parents scale were translated into indigenous language and psychometric properties of all the tools were predetermined for the study sample through a pilot test.