TY - JOUR PY - 2000// TI - Bullies and Delinquents: Personal Characteristics and Parental Styles JO - Journal of community and applied social psychology A1 - Baldry, Anna C. A1 - Farrington, David P. SP - 17 EP - 31 VL - 10 IS - 1 N2 - 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 10-01

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