Testing an Integrated Control Theory: The Role of Bonds and Self-Control in Decision Making

• In Event: Self-Control, Deviance, and Delinquency: Integration and Innovations

Abstract

This study evaluates the effects of social bonds and self-control on situational self-control and hypothetical drunk driving in an inmate sample and a student sample. We use path models to evaluate if self-control and social bonds exert direct and indirect effects on hypothetical drunk driving when situational self-control is intervening. The results suggest that both processes had an effect on the situational self-control measure, however, the situational self-control measure did not fully mediate the relationships with hypothetical drunk driving in both samples.

Authors

• Tyler J. Vaughan, Texas State University

• Jeff A. Bouffard, Sam Houston State University

• Alex Piquero, University of Texas at Dallas