Adolescent Runaways: The Significance Between Non-Runaways and Runaways and Their Perceptions of Self, Their Parents and Their World

Author

Mary E. Burrichter, University of Texas Permian Basin

Date of Award

12-1994

Document Type

Research Project Report

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Education

Supervisory Committee Chair

Al Milliren, Ed.D.

Second Advisor

G. Peter Ienatsch, Ph.D.

Third Advisor

Jose Ruiz-Escalante, Ed.D.

Abstract

Adolescents who run away from home cause major problems for themselves, for their parents, and for society. In this study runaways (n = 112) are compared to non-runaways (n = 211) in their perceptions- of self, their parents and the world in which they live by use of a self-reporting survey. It was hypothesized that runaways would have perceptions of self, parents, and the world that would be skewed to society's unacceptable end of the scale. T-tests were performed on the difference of the means of each variable for the runaways and non-runaways. Out of 13 variables for each, a total of 39, seventeen variables were found to be significant (p < 0.05). The findings demonstrated that the runaways' perception is skewed more to the unacceptable end of the scale than are the non-runaways.

Comments

BF723.S28.B87 1994

Recommended Citation

Burrichter, Mary E., "Adolescent Runaways: The Significance Between Non-Runaways and Runaways and Their Perceptions of Self, Their Parents and Their World" (1994). Graduate Theses. 112.
https://falconcommons.utpb.edu/utpb-edu/112