The Relationship Between Youth Cyberbullying Behaviors and Their Perceptions of Parental Emotional Support
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The Relationship Between Youth Cyberbullying Behaviors and Their Perceptions of Parental Emotional Support Laura Grunin 1 & Gary Yu 1 & Sally S. Cohen 1
# Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract Studies of bullying among youth usually focus on those who are bullied. Understanding the factors that affect youth who exhibit bullying behaviors is equally important. Such knowledge can heighten effectiveness of prevention and interventions at the individual, family, school, and community levels. We performed a secondary data analysis using data from the 2009 to 2010 World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Health Behavior in School-Aged Children cross-sectional survey (n = 12,642), the most recent WHO data collected in the USA. Using latent class analysis, we clustered sample participants into categories of children who do not bully, bully with a low cyberbullying element, bully with a moderate cyberbullying element, and bully with a high cyberbullying element. We used multinomial logistic regression to explore the relationships between youth’s perception of certain family characteristics (e.g., parental emotional support and socio-demographic characteristics) and the odds ratios of falling into one of the four latent classes generated. Establishing if a relationship exists between youth’s perception of parental support factors and their bullying behavior can enhance understanding of variables that might modify adolescents’ bullying. Findings of this study point to the importance of parental emotional support as a factor that can affect adolescent cyberbullying behavior. This evidence is useful for parents, education and healthcare professionals, and others involved in young people’s lives. Keywords Bullying . Parental support . Latent class analysis . Cyberbullying . Adolescents
Over the past 15 years, in addition to the many studies on children who are bullied, researchers have expanded the study of bullying to include those who bully. Knowing the factors associated with bullying behaviors can be useful in designing effective programs to prevent bullying, intervene when it occurs, and work with youth involved in bullying incidents. As the Internet becomes an increasingly salient part of adolescents’ lives, cyberbullying and its potentially harmful effects on youth who are targets of cyberbullying have emerged as major concerns (Boniel-Nissim and Sasson 2018; Patchin and Hinduja 2010). Evidence of how cyberbullying can produce emotional and behavioral harm in children and youth has heightened the urgency to unravel its causes and prevent or at least mitigate its effects (Kim et al. 2019; Mishna et al. 2016; Tözun 2018; Zych et al. 2019).
* Laura Grunin [email protected] 1
New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, 433 First Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA
Compared to youth in other age groups, adolescents, especially those in middle school have a higher rate of bullying. Findings from the 2017 to 2018 Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools survey show middle schools
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