Cyberbullying in Greek Adolescents: The Role of Parents☆

By E. Makri-Botsari, G. Karagianni. 2014

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Abstract The aim of the study was to examine whether and to what extent parenting practices create a suitable ground and/or enhance Greek adolescents’ involvement in cyberbullying either as cyber-bullies or cyber-victims and whether adolescents’ gender and parents’ educational level are differentiating factors of cyberbullying at puberty. The results with a sample of 396 secondary school students showed that: (a) parenting style was not a statistically significant predictor of adolescent cyber victimization; on the contrary, seemed to be a significant predictor of cyberbullying manifestation, since adolescents with authoritative parents exhibited the lowest levels of cyberbullying behaviors while adolescents with authoritarian parents the highest; (b) adolescents with authoritative parents tended to communicate more frequently to them the cyberbullying experiences they might have than adolescents with permissive, neglectful or authoritarian parents; (c) gender and parents’ educational level were not a significant differentiating factor of cyberbullying behavior.

Subfields: Education, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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