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Parenting Styles and Adolescents’ Cyberbullying: The Indirect Effect of Attitude Towards Human Dignity

Auteurs: Junru Wang, Shujie Zheng, Minghao Zhang, Kedi Zhao

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 1/2025

Abstract

The link between parenting styles and adolescents’ cyberbullying is well-established. However, few studies have examined fathers and mothers’ parenting styles separately, and even fewer have explored the relationship between parenting styles and cyberbullying from the perspective of attitude towards human dignity. Therefore, the current cross-sectional study aimed to investigate whether attitude towards human dignity underlie the associations between parenting styles and cyberbullying among adolescents. 768 adolescents from two different middle schools in China were measured for their perceptions of parenting style, cyberbullying behavior, and attitude towards human dignity. Regression analysis showed that except for paternal overprotection, both the cognition and behavioral tendency of human dignity had a significant indirect effect on fathers’/mothers’ parenting styles and cyberbullying. Still, the emotion of human dignity had no significant indirect effect.

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Titel: Parenting Styles and Adolescents’ Cyberbullying: The Indirect Effect of Attitude Towards Human Dignity
Auteurs: Junru Wang
Shujie Zheng
Minghao Zhang
Kedi Zhao
Publicatiedatum: 04-01-2025
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 1/2025
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02971-3

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