College of Education
Date of Award
12-1994
Document Type
Research Project Report
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Education
First Advisor
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.
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). College of Education. 112.
https://falconcommons.utpb.edu/utpb-edu/112
Comments
BF723.S28.B87 1994