Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 15, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15122634
Keywords
parenting styles; proactive; reactive violence; adolescence
Funding
- MINECO/FEDER, UE [PSI2015-65683-P]
- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain
- European Union though the European Regional Development Fund-(in Spanish, ERDF)-A way of making Europe
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The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationship between the parenting stylesauthoritative, indulgent, authoritarian, and neglectfuland reactive and proactive school violence among peers. These analyses were also performed by sex and age groups. The sample consisted of 2399 Spanish adolescents (50.2% male), aged between 12 and 18 years, mean (M) = 14.69, standard deviation (SD) = 1.82. A multivariate analisys of variance (MANOVA, 4 x 2 x 2) was applied, considering parenting style, sex, and age group (12-14 and 15-18 years) as independent variables to analyze the possible effects of interaction. Reactive, proactive, and pure violence were the dependent variables. The results showed the main effects of parenting styles, sex, and age, as well as an interaction between sex, age, and parenting styles. The interpretation of the findings suggested that the authoritarian parenting style was related to greater engagement in proactive and reactive violent behaviors. In relation to the effect of the interaction between sex, age, and parenting styles, it was observed that adolescents from indulgent families, of both sexes and in any of the studied age groups, obtained lower scores in proactive violence. The discussion highlights the importance of affection and warmth for well-adjusted children's behavior.
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