부산대학교 도서관

According to the viewpoints of social control theory and social learning theory, this study fused on the relationships between attitudes toward money and delinquency of junior high school students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among attitudes toward money, social control, association with deviant peers and delinquency. The sample in this study consisted of 747 students from 8 junior high schools in the city areas of Taiwan. In this study, statistical analyses included descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and nested regression model. The major findings included: (a) the monetary power had positive relationships with delinquency; moreover there were negative relationships between budget planning and delinquency; (b) attachment to parents and belief could limit the development of delinquency; however, there were positive relationships between involvement and delinquency; (c) there were positive relationships between association with delinquent peers and delinquency; (d) social control factors and association with deviant peers affected the relationship between money attitudes and delinquency; (e) after including control variables, the relationships between involvement and attachment to peers and delinquency were changed.