Abstract

This study has been carried out in order to look into if emotional experience and affect intensity play important role for impulsive behavior of adolescents'. 560 juvenile delinquents and ordinary adolescents were asked to complete questionnaire on the negative emotional experience, affect intensity and impulsive behavior. Finally, responses from 485 adolescents were used for the analysis. First, the researcher has looked into if there is any difference on negative emotional experience, affect intensity and impulsive behavior between juvenile delinquents and ordinary adolescent through t-test. As a result, juvenile delinquents showed more negative emotional experience and impulsive behaviors than the ordinary adolescents. Second, the researcher has tested if the negative emotional experience has effect on the impulsive behavior with the mediator of affect intensity using correlation analysis and regression analysis. The result showed that in case of the juvenile delinquents, the negative emotional experience had effect on the impulsive behavior with the mediator of affect intensity. However, in case of the ordinary adolescents, the affect intensity did not mediate the relation between negative emotional experience and impulsive behavior. To sum it up, the results suggest that as the emotional experience have important effect on the impulsive behavior of the maladjustment adolescents, emotional intervention is required for cure and prevention of juvenile delinquents' maladjustment behavior. On the basis of the results, this paper has proposed intervention method on the misconduct behaviors of the adolescents and discussed meaning and restriction of this study. (Korean J Str Res 2013;21:175∼182)

• Keywords: Juvenile delinquent, Negative emotional experience, Affect intensity, Impulsive behavior;