Parenting styles and bullying at school: The mediating role of locus of control

Autor: Stelios N. Georgiou, Panayiotis Stavrinides, Myria Ioannou
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: International Journal of School & Educational Psychology. 5:226-242
ISSN: 2168-3611
2168-3603
DOI: 10.1080/21683603.2016.1225237
Popis: The current study examined the mediating role of children's locus of control in the relation between parenting styles and bully–victim experiences at school. Participants were 447 students aged 10 and 11 years old from 13 different elementary, urban, and rural schools in Cyprus. Analyses using structural equation modeling showed that parenting styles predict the development of these experiences differently. Specifically, authoritarian parenting is positively associated to bully–victim experiences at school, while authoritative parenting is negatively associated to the same variables. Furthermore, the findings indicated mediation effects, with locus of control being a full mediator in the relationship between authoritative parenting style and bully–victim experiences and a partial mediator in the relationship between authoritarian parenting style and bully–victim experiences at school. Nonrecursive reciprocal models confirmed the theoretically driven direction of the effect from parenting styles to bullyin...
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