The Factors Influencing Self-development of Juvenile Delinquent of Juvenile and Family Court under the Administrative Office of the Court of Justice, Region 4

Abstract

This research aimed at 1) studying the level of the factors influencing self-development; 2) studying the relationship between various factors that influencing self-development; and 3) studying the predictive factors for self-development. The sample group consisted of 420 juvenile offenders of the Juvenile and Family Courts under the Administrative Office of the Court of Justice, Region 4 receiving special treatment instead of being prosecuted under Section 132, Paragraph 1, obtained by using the stratified random sampling technique. The research instruments used were 1) the general information questionnaire, 2) the 16-item self-development assessment questionnaire with discrimination from 0.33 to 0.62 and a reliability coefficient of 0.86, 3) the 8-item self-efficacy assessment questionnaire with discrimination from 0.32 to 0.57 and a reliability coefficient of 0.75, 4) the 10-item achievement motivation assessment questionnaire with discrimination from 0.44 to 0.57 and a reliability coefficient of 0.81, 5) the 10-item self-confidence assessment questionnaire with discrimination from 0.33 to 0.68 and a reliability coefficient of 0.78, 6) the 8-item self-control assessment questionnaire with discrimination from 0.37 to 0.64 and a reliability coefficient of 0.81, and 7) the 9-item optimism assessment questionnaire with discrimination from 0.36 to 0.72 and a reliability coefficient of 0.82. The statistical analysis techniques used to analyze the data included percentages, means, standard deviations, Pearson correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis.
The research found that 1) the factors influencing self-development and self-development were all high, 2) the correlation between the factors influencing self-development and self-development had a positive correlation with self-development at statistical significance of .01 level, and 3) the causal factors influencing self-development consisted of achievement motivation, self-control, self-confidence, and optimism with the beta weight of 0.28, 0.21, 0.19 and 0.18 respectively. All causal factors could jointly explain the self-development variance at 54 percent. And the forecast equation was as follows: Z’Y= .28(ZX₂) +.19(ZX₃)+.21(ZX₄) +.18(ZX₅)