Abstract
The present study was intended to know whether personality traits predicting the delinquency among
laborer adolescents. The research also aimed to see laborer adolescents with different demographic
variables (i.e., age, education, labor type, and duration of labor) are differing on the self-reported
delinquency (SRD) and Informant-reported delinquency (IRD) scales (Naqvi & Kamal, 2008) and Eysenck
Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-Junior) (Naqvi & Kamal, 2010). The study was carried out on a sample of
250 laborer adolescents working in workshops, general stores, restaurants, beggars, and trash collectors.
Findings revealed self-reported delinquency and informant-reported delinquency, and personality traits i.e.,
extraversion, psychoticism, and neuroticism are positively related with each other. Multiple Linear
Regression analysis results revealed high predictability of personality traits i.e., extraversion, psychoticism,
and neuroticism traits with self-reported delinquency. The adolescents with less education have more
delinquent tendencies. More delinquency is reported with increase in age and duration of labor among
laborer adolescents. Labor type has nonsignificant effect on delinquency among laborer adolescents.
