RT Article
T1 Parental Responsibility, Blameworthiness, and Bullying: Parenting Style and Adolescents’ Experiences With Traditional Bullying and Cyberbullying
JF Criminal justice policy review
VO 32
IS 5
SP 447
OP 468
A1 Broll, Ryan 1966-
A2 Reynolds, Dylan
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1755889046
AB Parents are deemed morally—and, increasingly, legally—responsible for their children’s misbehavior, and their parental aptitude is questioned if their children are victimized. Parental responsibility laws and blameworthiness extend to common occurrences like bullying. Literature broadly supports these principles for some offenses through findings that effective parenting styles are associated with improved adolescent outcomes, but evidence about the relationship between parenting styles and bullying is underdeveloped and inconclusive. To study the relationship between parenting styles and traditional bullying and cyberbullying offending and victimization, data were collected from a sample of 435 Canadian middle and high school students. The results suggest that parenting styles are not associated with traditional bullying offending or victimization; however, neglectful parenting was associated with cyberbullying offending and indulgent parenting was associated with cyberbullying victimization. These findings suggest that the demandingness dimension of parenting, which is characterized by rule setting and monitoring, is important for cyberbullying prevention.
K1 parental responsibility
K1 parenting styles
K1 Cyberbullying
K1 Traditional bullying
K1 Canada
DO 10.1177/0887403420921443