Family and Personal Adjustment of Economically Disadvantaged Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

Table 3

Delinquent behaviors between poor and nonpoor groups in the past year.

	Never (%)		Attempted (%) (1–4 times)		Attempted (%) (5 times or above)
	Poor group	Nonpoor group	Poor group	Nonpoor group	Poor group	Nonpoor group
(1) Stealing	86.5	90.3	12.7	9.0	1.0	0.7
(2) Cheating	38.1	38.4	43.1	42.2	18.8	19.4
(3) Truancy	95.9	97.2	3.2	2.1	0.9	0.7
(4) Running away from home	94.1	96.7	5.4	3.0	0.5	0.3
(5) Damaging others’ properties	88.8	86.1	10.3	12.1	0.9	1.8
(6) Assault	90.5	88.6	7.2	9.3	2.3	2.1
(7) Having sexual intercourse with others	98.2	99.6	1.8	0.3	0	0.1
(8) Group fighting	96.3	97.1	2.3	2.5	1.4	0.4
(9) Speaking foul language	24.9	30.3	37.1	38.0	38.0	31.7
(10) Staying outside overnight without parents’ consent	97.2	97.2	2.3	2.1	0.5	0.7
(11) Strong arming others	79.1	85.0	16.8	11.3	4.1	3.7
(12) Trespasses	96.8	96.1	3.2	3.2	0	0.7