Rizična i antisocijalna ponašanja mla|ih adolescenata i privrženost školi
Risky and Antisocial Behavior among Young Adolescents and School Attachment

Summary/Abstract: The aims of this paper are to establish the prevalence of specific risky and antisocial behavior of younger adolescents, as well as, relationships of antisocial behavior with school attachment and success with regard to gender and age. Data were collected in 2006 on a representative school sample of Croatian younger adolescents by self-report. The results indicate that the prevalence of all specific behaviors is lower among girls than among boys (from 44.3% for "using public transport without ticket" (in eighth grades) to 3.3% for "steal something worth more than 200 Kuna" (sixth grades). Inclination towards antisocial behavior is relatively highest among students of eighth grades, and relatively lowest among pupils of fifth grades. The analyses confirmed statistically significant differences in inclinations toward antisocial behavior with regard to attachment to school (regardless of gender and age), but not with regard to school success.

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