Relationship of adolescent‘s delinquent behaviour, self - esteem and empathy

Object of work: adolescent‘s delinquent behaviour connection with self – esteem and empathy. Goal: to estimate adolescent‘s delinquent behaviour connection with self – esteem and empathy. Objectives: 1. To establish adolescent‘s delinquent behaviour rates. 2. To establish adolescent‘s self – esteem rates. 3. To establish adolescent‘s empathy rates. 4. To compare boys‘s and girls‘s delinquent behaviour, self – esteem and empathy rates. Hypothesis: 1. The higher level of delinquent behaviour predicted the lower level of empathy and self - esteem. 2. Boys have higher delinquent behaviour and self - esteem rates than girls. 3. Girls empathy‘s level is higher than boys. Conclusions: 5. It was estimated that commonly occured form of delinquent behaviour is homework crib, and rarely – picking and stealing, running away from home and bullying. 6. Data analysis showed that majority of pupils have high and lightly less – middle self esteem. 7. According to research analysis, girl‘s empathy rates are hiher than boys. 8. Searching for statistically significant differences of gender, it was found out that boy‘s delinquent behaviour was more pronounced than girl‘s. There was statistically significant diferrences in fights at school, bullies and taking gun to school. After research, it was revealed that majority of pupils have high or middle self - esteem. However, statistically significant diferrence between boy‘s and girl‘s self esteem was not estimated. Also, it was revealed that boy‘s Perspective Taking /PT/ and Dispositional empathy (Empathy index /EI/) is significantly lower than girl‘s; it was not estimated significant differences in the area of Empathic Concern /EC/ (an affective response for the distressed other) and Perspective Taking /PT/