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A 3 page article analysis that summarizes and analyzes the study undertaken by Passchall, Ringwalt and Flewelling (2003), investigated the effects of parenting, particularly the absence of fathers, as well as the effects of delinquent peers on subsequent delinquent behavior among teenage black males. This demographic group is of particular concern to society due to the fact that they are over-represented within the criminal justice system. No additional sources cited.
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the effects of delinquent peers on subsequent delinquent behavior among teenage black males. This demographic group is of particular concern to society due to the fact that they are
over-represented within the criminal justice system. The research team hypothesized that the factors of "parental monitoring and perceived control" would exert greater effects on teen behavior than would "parent-adolescent communication
and relations"; that mothers would have greater effect in families where the fathers were absent; and that delinquent peer relationships would mediate relationships between parents and their teenage sons (Passchall,
Ringwalt and Flewelling, 2003, p. 15). The survey data was filled out by both mothers and sons in their homes. The survey used was a 9-item index that measured
the mothers monitoring of their sons behavior and a 6-item index was used to measure the perceived control of mothers over their sons behavior. Additional surveys were also employed.
Eligibility for inclusion in he study was based on the identification of the adolescent of the adult participant as "the female adult he lived with most of the time and
who was most like a mother to him" (Passchall, Ringwalt and Flewelling, 2003, p. 15). Roughly 90 percent of the adult participants were the biological mothers of the teens, roughly
half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises that formed the basis for the investigation. Inductive
logic helped the researchers in deducing how well their premises fit the data. As the study relied on a variety of indexes or surveys with multiple-choice answers, rather than
through qualitative techniques, such as interviews, this writer/tutor would classify this as a quantitative study. The quantitative nature of the study is substantiated by the fact that descriptive analysis quantified
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