Social Competence and Child-to-Parent Violence: Analyzing the Role of the Emotional Intelligence, Social Attitudes, and Personal Values. Issue 2 (1st February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Contreras, Lourdes; Cano, M. Carmen
• Is Part Of: Deviant behavior. Volume 37:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 115
• Page End: 125
• Publication Date: 2016-02-01
• Subjects: Deviant behavior -- Periodicals; 302.54205
• DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2014.983024
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0163-9625

Abstract

Abstract: This study examined some variables of the so-called social competence, such as the emotional intelligence, social attitudes, and personal values in adolescents who had committed a parent-abuse offense, analyzing whether there were some differences with respect to non-offender adolescents. The sample included 60 participants. From them, 30 were adolescents who had been charged with committing a parent-abuse offense and 30 were non-offender adolescents. Results revealed that parent-abuse offenders showed lower levels of emotional intelligence, more antisocial and less prosocial attitudes than non-offender adolescents, as well as higher scores in hedonism and power values.