本研究以立意取樣選取台北縣板橋市某二國小448 名一年級學童並持續追蹤至國小三年級，透過家長及班級導師之問卷調查，以一般化犯罪理論為研究架構探討家庭因素、自我控制與兒童問題行為間之關係，以及兒童自我控制和問題行為的發展與變化。主要研究發現有：（一）家庭結構、家庭功能未能有效影響自我控制；（二）造成兒童問題行為之主要因素為自我控制，與家庭結構、家庭功能較無關；（三）兒童之自我控制（衝動性、冒險性及低計畫性）具有改變性。

The longitudinal study purposively sampled and surveyed 448 elementary
students in Taipei County in 2001 and managed the followed-up survey in 2003.By using two-wave dataset, the research attempted to examine the hypotheses proposed by Gotterfreson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime. The result indicated that：（1）there was no significant effect of family structure and function on children’s self-control;（2）self-control was an important predictor of child problem behaviors regardless of their family structure and function;（3）children’s self-control（i.e.impulsivity, risk-taking, low-planning）was improvable in time.