FAMILY, SCHOOL, PEER, AND MEDIA PREDICTORS OF ADOLESCENT DEVIANT-BEHAVIOR IN HONG-KONG

Based on a self-report study of 1139 secondary school students in Hong Kong, this paper estimates the strengths of selected family variables , school variables, peer variables, and media variables in the predict ion of adolescent deviant behavior. Regression results show that the e quation containing peers' deviant behavior, peers' disapproval of devi ant behavior, frequency of media exposure, preference for violent/obsc ene content imitation of media characters, parents' deviant behavior, and teachers' negative evaluation explained the greatest amount of var iance of adolescent deviant behavior Theoretical and research implicat ions of these and other findings for the rapidly industrializing and m odernizing society of Hong Kong are discussed.