School crime and disruption as a function of student-school fit: An empirical assessment
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Vol. 9 (4), 353-370
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02087987
Abstract
A theoretical model is described which conceptualizes school crime and disruption as a function of the congruence or fit between the personal characteristics of students and the social environments of the schools they attend. In a direct empirical test of the model, indices representing 10 distinct dimensions of student-school fit are related to three composite measures of school misconduct: school crime, school avoidance, and class misbehavior. A number of significant relationships are found between dimensions of student-school fit and the three indices of school misbehavior, several of which manifest one of the nonlinear forms specified by the model, providing at least modest support for a person-environment fit theory of school crime and disruption.Keywords
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