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lak R, Mohaqeq H, hosseinzadeh S. (2019). The Effectiveness of School-based Social Responsibility Training on Attitude toward Juvenile Delinquency among Adolescent Girls. refahj. 19(74), 97-132.
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Introduction: The present study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of social responsibility training on attitude towards delinquency among adolescent girls. 
Method: This is a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population included all female secondary high school students within the age range of 15 to18 years old in Tehran. A sample consisting of 92 students (45 intervention and 47control group ( was selected. Delinquent Behaviors Questionnaire was used as the instrument. The subjects received social responsibility training for seven sessions – 90 minutes, lasting for two months. Then, the post-test was given. To analyze the data, SPSS software and Paired and Independent T-Test, Anova and Manova were employed.
Findings: The result of Paired and Independent T-Test suggested that in the intervention group, the positive attitude and negative attitude towards delinquency significantly decreased and increased, respectively. While in the control group, significant difference was not observed for any of the dimensions of attitude. The findings of Manova showed that the pre-test score of positive attitude explains 6% and 22% of the variations of post-test scores of negative and positive attitudes, respectively. In addition, the pre-test score of negative attitude explains about 32% of the post-test variations of negative attitudes.
Discussion: The findings showed that social responsibility training could be effective in promoting social competencies and decreasing adolescents’ tendency to resort to deviant patterns. In addition, the results of Manova showed that this training is more effective in younger adolescents.
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Received: 2018/10/7 | Accepted: 2019/09/29 | Published: 2020/01/18

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