TY - JOUR
T1 - Teacher-student relationships in childhood as a protective factor against adolescent delinquency up to age 17
T2 - A propensity score matching approach
AU - Obsuth, Ingrid
AU - Murray, Aja Louise
AU - Knoll, Monja
AU - Ribeaud, Denis
AU - Eisner, Manuel
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: The research reported in this manuscript was financially supported by the Jacobs Foundation (Grant 2010-888) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grants 100013_116829 & 100014_132124).
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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - In this paper we examined the impact of the quality of teacher-student relationships at age 10 on young people’s delinquency at ages 13, 15, and 17 utilizing propensity-score matching. The young people were matched based on 105 characteristics, measured at ages 7 to 10. The sample comprised 1483 (49.4% female) adolescents representing around 80 different countries of origin, residing in Zurich, Switzerland. We found that young people who reported a better relationship with their teacher at age 10, engaged in fewer delinquent acts at ages 13, 15, and 17. These findings suggest that when young people perceive a better relationship with their teachers this serves as a protective factor against their engagement in delinquency up to 7 years later.
AB - In this paper we examined the impact of the quality of teacher-student relationships at age 10 on young people’s delinquency at ages 13, 15, and 17 utilizing propensity-score matching. The young people were matched based on 105 characteristics, measured at ages 7 to 10. The sample comprised 1483 (49.4% female) adolescents representing around 80 different countries of origin, residing in Zurich, Switzerland. We found that young people who reported a better relationship with their teacher at age 10, engaged in fewer delinquent acts at ages 13, 15, and 17. These findings suggest that when young people perceive a better relationship with their teachers this serves as a protective factor against their engagement in delinquency up to 7 years later.
KW - delinquency
KW - longitudinal
KW - multi-informant
KW - propensity score matching
KW - teacher-student relationships
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U2 - 10.1177/00111287211014153
DO - 10.1177/00111287211014153
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105972312
SN - 0011-1287
VL - 69
SP - 727
EP - 755
JO - Crime and Delinquency
JF - Crime and Delinquency
IS - 4
ER -