The present study examined the effects of personal and parental factors on cyberbullying perpetration among middle school students. The personal factors were the cyberbullying victimization experience and the average time of the internet usage and t...
The present study examined the effects of personal and parental factors on cyberbullying perpetration among middle school students. The personal factors were the cyberbullying victimization experience and the average time of the internet usage and the parental factors were the quality of parent-adolescent relationship and the parental controlling behavior. The participants of this study were 423 middle school students(192 boys, 231 girls) from five middle schools located in Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeong-gi area.
To assess the research variables, Bullying/Victimization Questionnaire(Campfield, 2008), the Korea Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment Scale(Yoo, Park, & Hwang, 2010), and the Parental Monitoring Instrument Scale(Kim, 2012) were used. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, t-test, and logistic regression.
The result shows as the following. Whether the subject has done cyberbullying or not was predicted by the previous cyberbullying victimization experience, parental controlling behavior, average time of the internet usage, and the quality of parent-adolescent relationship. In other words, adolescents who have experienced cyberbullying victimization, controlled by their parents, use internet a lot or have poor relationship with their parents were more likely to participate in cyberbullying perpetration. These findings suggest that in addition to the personal factors, intervention of the parenting behavior and parent-adolescent relationship should be also considered when developing an intervention program for cyberbullying.