RT Article
T1 Parenting influences on bullying and victimization
JF Legal and criminological psychology
VO 3
IS 2
SP 237
OP 254
A1 Baldry, Anna Costanza 1970-
A2 Farrington, David 1944-
LA English
YR 1998
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1847457274
AB Purpose. The main aim of this research was to investigate the parental styles and personal characteristics of bullies and victims, and to disentangle factors related to bully/victims from factors related to children who were only bullies or only victims. Method. A self-report questionnaire on bullying was completed by 113 girls and 125 boys aged 11-14 years in a middle school in Rome. Results. Over half of all students had bullied others in the previous three months, and nearly half had been victimized. About a quarter of all students were both bullies and victims. Bullies tended to be male and to have low pro-social behaviour, but these were largely characteristics of children who were only bullies. Victims tended to be female and to have low self-esteem, but these were largely characteristics of children who were only victims. Children who were both bullies and victims tended to have authoritarian parents, but these were largely characteristics of bully/victims. Conclusions. It is important to study only bullies, only victims and bully/victims, as well as bullies and victims in general. Personal characteristics were related to only bullies or only victims, whereas parental styles were more related to bully/victims.
DO 10.1111/j.2044-8333.1998.tb00364.x