To do, not to do, or do something different : self-control and incarcerated youth offenders.

• Main Author: Khairiyah Kassim.
• Other Authors: Qu Li
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social deviance
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/17283
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Incarcerated youth offenders (N = 25) were compared with non-offending youths (N = 25) in the aspect of self-control with the Stroop test and the Arithmetic switching task. Compared to the non-offenders, incarcerated youth offenders appeared to have larger switch costs in the switching task though t...