"the boy who would not grow up": maturity and physiological responses of juvenile offenders
| dc.contributor | Brodsky, Stanley L. | |
| dc.contributor | Church, Wesley T. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Salekin, Randall T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | MacDougall, Emily | |
| dc.contributor.other | University of Alabama Tuscaloosa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-01T17:37:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-01T17:37:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Developmental maturity is an important concept with serious legal repercussions for adolescent offenders (Kent v. U.S., 1966; Roper v. Simmons, 2005). Recent research has emphasized the neurobiological correlates of adolescent behavior, but there is little understanding of the neurobiological underpinnings of maturity. The current study explored maturity in adolescent offenders using both physiological and psychological tests to assess emotional reactivity. Correlational and regression analyses were used to evaluate the relationship between a measure of heart rate (vagal tone) and skin conductance and several self-report measures of maturity. Findings indicated that adolescent maturity is composed of several different constructs and some constructs appear to share neurobiological underpinnings. Specifically, emotional reactivity appears to be one construct of adolescent maturity composed of several sub-constructs that can be indexed using heart rate, skin conductance, and psychological tests. Legal and clinical implications are discussed. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 71 p. | |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.other | u0015_0000001_0002115 | |
| dc.identifier.other | MacDougall_alatus_0004M_11891 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/2500 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Alabama Libraries | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | born digital | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections | |
| dc.rights | All rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Psychology | |
| dc.title | "the boy who would not grow up": maturity and physiological responses of juvenile offenders | en_US |
| dc.type | thesis | |
| dc.type | text | |
| etdms.degree.department | University of Alabama. Department of Psychology | |
| etdms.degree.discipline | Psychology | |
| etdms.degree.grantor | The University of Alabama | |
| etdms.degree.level | master's | |
| etdms.degree.name | M.A. |
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