Parenting Dimensions and Adolescent Peer Aggression: A Gendered Analysis

Abstract

The present study had two main goals. The first was to analyze the differences between parenting dimensions—strictness/imposition and involvement/acceptance—in adolescents’ engagement in peer aggression as aggressors, victims, aggressive victims, and non-involved. The second goal was to examine differences between parenting dimensions and peer-aggression roles by gender of both parents and adolescents. Participants were 779 adolescents (49.16% boys and 50.84% girls), aged between 12 and 16 years old (M = 14.21; SD = 1.35), enrolled in schools in Andalusia (Spain). Findings showed significant differences in parenting dimensions depending on gender of both adolescents (boy or girl) and parents (mother and father). For sons, non-involved adolescents scored higher in mother and father involvement than aggressors and aggressive victims. For daughters, non-involved scored higher in mother involvement than aggressors. Furthermore, girl aggressors and aggressive victims reported higher levels of mother imposition than non-involved. Results and their implications for sustainable development in adolescence are discussed.

Child-to-Parent Violence, Peer Victimization and Cybervictimization in Spanish Adolescents

“…However, the perception of family conflict contributes to the fact that adolescents are victims of victimization, since they tend to perform submissive behaviours and present themselves to their peers as vulnerable and easy targets for abuse [46]. Victims of PV define their parents as cold, indifferent, hostile, in some cases overprotective or permissive and feel rejected and little supported by them [47,48]. In addition, communication problems and family expressiveness have been observed in victims, increasing the psychological discomfort of adolescents, who find it more difficult to deal effectively with aggression [12,32].…”

“…This process is bi-directional; greater PV also implies greater psychological distress, which in turn makes adolescents have worse communication with their parents [20]. However, positive parent-adolescent relations, including positive communication and disclosure between parents and children implies better psychosocial adjustment and a lower level of victimization among peers [33,47].…”

Agresividad en delincuentes juveniles colombianos y su relación con la agresividad parental

“…que constituyen factores predisponentes, precipitantes o mantenedores de la agresividad juvenil. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estos estudios se han realizado con población normal escolarizada (Batool y Bond, 2015;Montero-Montero et al, 2020;Lakhdir et al, 2020;Ojedokun et al, 2013;Sharma, 2016). Asimismo, existe una amplia literatura sobre la agresividad juvenil en población normal (Estévez et al, 2018;Robles-Haydar et al, 2021;Sánchez, 2018), pero no se encuentran estudios que analicen la agresividad de padres y madres de jóvenes delincuentes.…”

The Mediating Role of Classroom Climate on School Violence

“…More specifically, peer aggression is considered to be a public health issue [ 4 ] that affects the well-being of children and adolescents [ 5 ], and even the development of their adult life, making it a complex problem. Previous research has identified various risk factors [ 6 , 7 ], and personal and social adjustment problems [ 8 , 9 ], associated with peer aggression and peer victimization.…”