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Running head: BULLYING AND PARENTING STYLE 1

Bullying and Parenting Style

Livan Hernandez

Florida National University

BULLYING AND PARENTING STYLE 2

Bullying and Parenting Style

Outline

Introduction

Research shows that parenting styles that depict bullying involving insults, mockery, and

lack of empathy for a child's feelings are linked with increased bullying behavior in children.

Parenting style may be associated with an opposite impact, including mockery, insults, and ridicule

by the parents. Parental styles may enhance the possibility that child will be a victim of bullying.

Body

1. Dysregulated anger

Bullying behavior is a potential consequence of the parenting style, which comprise of

mockery, derision, as well as lack of emotional support coupled with empathy, which is associated

with the feelings of the child (Efobi & Nwokolo, 2014). There are expected consequences of the

derisive parenting style that unites the bully and the bullying victim.

2. Derisive Parenting

The types of parental styles comprise authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and

neglectful parenting styles. In the authoritarian parenting style, parents rarely explain the rules and

consequences of their parenting styles. In the authoritative parenting styles, parents establish and

maintain their children's authority (Martínez et al., 2019). Also, the parents set firm boundaries but

usually take time to explain to the children the whys and wherefores of the rules. Also, the rules

and the consequences are still tight, whereas children have the agency compared to the strict

household. However, in the permissive parenting style, very few boundaries are set by the parents.

Still, they are not directly linked to the decisions that are made by the children, such as after school

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activities. In the neglectful parenting style, it is mainly characterized by minimal parental

engagement and is associated with a lack of rules, emotional support, and guidance.

Conclusion

Among the four types of parenting styles, the authoritarian parenting style comprises of a

decisive element. Therefore, parents who are considered derisive usually respond to their children's

efforts to engage with them through criticism, sarcasm, and hostility. The authoritarian parenting

style that is characterized by derisive elements comprises of threats, physical and emotional

coercion, as well as physical and emotional dominance.

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References

Efobi, A., & Nwokolo, C. (2014). Relationship between parenting styles and a tendency to

bullying behavior among adolescents. Journal of Education and Human Development,3(1),

507-521. Retrieved from

http://jehdnet.com/journals/jehd/Vol_3_No_1_March_2014/27.pdf.

Martínez, I., Murgui, S., García, O. F., & García, F. (2019). Parenting in the digital era: Protective

and risk parenting styles for traditional bullying and cyber bullying victimization.

Computers in Human Behavior, 90, 84-92. Retrieved from

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.08.036.

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