Youth Correctional Centers’ social climate – diagnosis and development perspective

The article includes a presentation of the results of the empirical research, whose purpose was to diagnose the social climate of correctional institutions for juvenile. The research sample (testing by the Scale of the Social Climate by Moos) was a group of 412 students and 153 teachers from thirteen Youth Correctional (Educational) Facilities.Asurvey revealed that the social climate of Youth Educational Centers is most similar to the type “caring-tutorial”, which is rather positive. The results allowed to formulate the directions for the process of creating more constructive social climate of correctional institutions.

The article includes a presentation of the results of the empirical research, whose purpose was to diagnose the social climate of correctional institutions for juvenile. The research sample (testing by the Scale of the Social Climate by Moos) was a group of 412 students and 153 teachers from thirteen Youth Correctional (Educational) Facilities.Asurvey revealed that the social climate of Youth Educational Centers is most similar to the type “caring-tutorial”, which is rather positive. The results allowed to formulate the directions for the process of creating more constructive social climate of correctional institutions.