The Associations between Sibling Victimization, Sibling Bullying, Parental Acceptance–Rejection, and School Bullying

Aiche Sabah (), Musheer A. Aljaberi (), Chung-Ying Lin and Hsin-Pao Chen ()
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Aiche Sabah: Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Hassiba Benbouali University of Chlef, Chlef 02076, Algeria
Musheer A. Aljaberi: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Taiz University, Taiz 6803, Yemen
Chung-Ying Lin: Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
Hsin-Pao Chen: Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, E-DA Hospital, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 23, 1-16

Abstract: Bullying has been identified as the most common form of aggression experienced by school-age youth. However, it is still unclear about the family’s influence on school bullying. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the associations between sibling bullying and school bullying, sibling victimization and school victimization, and parental acceptance–rejection and school bullying victimization. The study was cross-sectional and conducted on a sample of students aged between 11 and 20 years recruited from middle schools in Algeria. The study used a survey adopted from the scale of Sibling Bullying, Student Survey of Bullying Behavior—Revised 2, and the Survey of parental acceptance–rejection in collecting the data. The model’s results assessing the association between sibling bullying and school bullying demonstrated that the effect of sibling physical and sibling verbal victims on school victimization was statistically significant. Despite the non-significant effect of sibling emotional victims on school victimization, the effect of sibling physical and sibling verbal bullying on school bullying was statistically significant. However, the effect of sibling emotional bullying on school bullying was not statistically significant. The direct effect of parental acceptance on school victimization was not statistically significant, whereas the effect of parental rejection on school victimization was statistically significant. The direct effect of parental acceptance on school bullying was not statistically significant, while the effect of parental rejection on school bullying was statistically significant. Based on the results, this study provides insights into the understanding of how the family and siblings contribute to school bullying. In particular, sibling victimization, sibling bullying, and parental acceptance–rejection are predictive factors of school bullying among adolescents. Future research should take into account factors based on family to explore the risks of school bullying.

Keywords: sibling bullying; school bullying; adolescent students; parental acceptance and rejection; violence; children’s health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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