Citation

Baldry AC, Farrington DP. J. Community Appl. Soc. Psychol. 2000; 10(1): 17-31.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, John Wiley and Sons)

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Abstract

This research aimed to analyse the personal characteristics and parental styles of bullies and delinquents, and to establish which factors were related to the bully/delinquent group and which were related to only bullies or only delinquents. A self-report questionnaire on bullying and delinquency was completed by 113 girls and 125 boys aged 11-14 in a middle school in Rome. Bullying and delinquency were more common among boys than among girls. Bullying did not vary significantly with age, but delinquency increased with age. Bullying and delinquency were especially related for boys and for older students. Only bullies were younger, while only delinquents were older, suggesting that bullying might be an early stage on a developmental sequence leading to delinquency. Only bullies and only delinquents had different parenting correlates; only bullies had authoritarian parents and disagreed with their parents, whereas only delinquents had conflictual and low supportive parents. This suggested that bullying and delinquency are not merely different behavioural manifestations of the same underlying construct. Parent training interventions might prevent both bullying and delinquency. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.)

Child Delinquency
Child Bully
Child Offender
Child Male
Child Female
Juvenile Female
Juvenile Male
Juvenile Bully
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Offender
Bully Offender
Bullying In School
Late Childhood
Early Adolescence
Male Offender
Female Offender
Italy
Foreign Countries
Offender Personality
Offender Characteristics
Personality Characteristics
Family Characteristics
Bullying Causes
Peer Relations
Parenting Practices
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