Longitudinal Relationships Between Parent Factors, Children’s Bullying, and Victimization Behaviors.

Date

2019

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Publisher

Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Abstract

Longitudinal data from NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development tested direct, indirect and reciprocal effects of maternal depressive symptoms, stress/support factors on child bullying and peer victimization through mother–child relationship quality at grades 3, 5, 6. Data from 828 mother-child dyads indicated small significant effects of some hypothesized pathways, including a small direct effect of maternal depressive symptoms at grade 3 on peer victimization at grade 5, but not on bullying behaviors. Mother–child relationship quality at grade 5 negatively predicted bullying at grade 6, but not peer victimization. There were small effects of bullying behaviors at grade 5 on decreased mother–child relationship quality at grade 6. Maternal employment at grade 3 predicted decreased bullying behaviors at grade 6 through mother–child relationship quality at grade 5. Findings are relevant for parent inclusive research and approaches to anti-bully intervention strategies and prevention policies. (Author Abstract)

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Keywords

child abuse, bullying, parenting, research

Citation

Malm, Esther K. ; Henrich, Christopher C. (2019). Longitudinal Relationships Between Parent Factors, Children’s Bullying, and Victimization Behaviors. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 50(5), 789–802.

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