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Parenting Dimensions and Adolescent Peer Aggression: A Gendered Analysis

Authors :: David Montero-Montero
David Moreno-Ruiz
Paula López-Martínez
Belén Martínez-Ferrer
Source :: Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 16, Montero Montero, David López Martínez, Paula Martínez Ferrer, Belén Moreno Ruiz, David 2020 Parenting dimensions and adolescent peer aggression: a gendered analysis. Sustainability 16 12 6522, RODERIC: Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia, Universitat de València, RODERIC. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia, instname, Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 6522, p 6522 (2020)
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020.
Abstract: The present study had two main goals. The first was to analyze the differences between parenting dimensions&mdash<br />strictness/imposition and involvement/acceptance&mdash<br />in adolescents&rsquo<br />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<br />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.