Paper Title
Relationships Between Family Cohesion, Parental Monitoring, Peer Influence And Delinquency Among Chinese Adolescent
Abstract
The present study was primarily conducted to determine the relationships between family cohesion, parental monitoring, peer influence and delinquency. A total of 300 of 16 years old Chinese adolescents who residing in Kuala Lumpur were involved in this study. Findings from this study showed there is significant correlation between family cohesion and delinquency. Parental monitoring to be negatively related to adolescent delinquency,while peer influence to be positively related to adolescent delinquency. This study also found that male adolescents tend to involve more with delinquency compared to female adolescents.Implication of the findings are also discussed in the paper.
Keywords� Family Cohesion, Parental Monitoring, Peer Influence, Delinquency.