Parenting Dimensions and Adolescent Peer Aggression: A Gendered Analysis

David Montero-Montero, Paula López-Martínez, Belén Martínez-Ferrer and David Moreno-Ruiz
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David Montero-Montero: Department of Education and Social Psychology, Pablo Olavide University, 41013 Seville, Spain
Paula López-Martínez: Department of Education and Social Psychology, Pablo Olavide University, 41013 Seville, Spain
Belén Martínez-Ferrer: Department of Education and Social Psychology, Pablo Olavide University, 41013 Seville, Spain
David Moreno-Ruiz: Department of Social Psychology, Valencia University, 46003 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 16, 1-15

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.

Keywords: peer aggression; aggressive victims; parental involvement; parental imposition; parenting dimensions; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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