اختبار الاحتواء الداخلي لنظرية الاحتواء في تفسير السلوك المنحرف لدى الأحداث في دور التربية و التأهيل الأردنية

Abstract EN

This study aimed to test internal containment in containment theory to explain deviant Behavior among Juveniles in Jordanian Rehabilitation Upbringing Institutions.

The theory was extended by adding the religion variable to inner containment.

A random clustered sample was chosen from school students, it consisted of (223) students in Al karak, from ages (12- 18) years.

A survey was used on the juvenile sample by choosing the whole (200) deviant juvenile in Jordanian Upbringing Institutions.

A questionnaire consisted of two sections: the first part consisted deviance measure which was applied on school population students to classify potential deviant from non-deviant.while and the second part internal containment measure that was used to measure the variables of internal containment, interviewing was used as a tool for collecting data for deviant who don’t know to read and write, who range to 160 juvenile delinquent.

The results showed a support for the hypotheses of internal containment that children who are exposed to internal containment are less prone to deviance, The study revealed the following results there were statistically significant differences at internal containments level (0.05 ≥α) (good selfconcept, self- control, ego strength, super ego, and religion) which is attributed to status variable (deviant- non- deviant according to the results of the study, a number of recommendations were presented .