The Family Environment of Delinquent Events and Its Relationship to Some Psychological Variables: A Psychometric-Clinical Study.

Abstract

#This research aims at studying the characteristics of the family climate, which can be expected to produce a turbulent personality that leads to the delinquent behavior of Yemeni Juveniles and its relation with certain personal characteristics of the juvenile such as (the strength of ego, the impulsiveness, the emotional intelligence) . And whether these psychological can be separately predicted for the juveniles through the overall degree of family climate. Then, what is the common aspects and nature of the family relationships of the two juveniles’ offenders of the current clinical study, whom according to the psychometric results showed disorder of family environment.

The research sample consisted of (56) delinquent juvenile for psychometric study, and (2) for clinical study. the most important results :

1-  More than 50% of the sample has an unstable family climate, 50% of the sample has low ego strength,19.6% have a low impulsiveness, 30.4% have low emotional intelligence. 2- The strength of the ego and the impulsiveness can be predicted through the family climate of the juvenile delinquent. 3- The two clinical cases have a family climate that is confused and incoherent, their families have different types of conflicts, and their methods of conflict resolution vary between positive methods sometimes and negative methods other times.