The relation between harsh parenting and bullying involvement and the moderating role of child inhibitory control: A population-based study.

ABSTRACT: Harsh parenting has been linked to children's bullying involvement in three distinct roles: perpetrators, targets (of bullying), and perpetrator-targets. To understand how the same parenting behavior is associated with three different types of bulling involvement, we examined the moderating roles of children's inhibitory control and sex. In addition, we differentiated between mothers' and fathers' harsh parenting. We analyzed multi-informant questionnaire data from 2131 families participating in the Dutch Generation R birth cohort study. When children were three years old, parents reported on their own harsh parenting practices. When children were four, mothers reported on their children's inhibitory control. At child age six, teachers reported on children's bullying involvement. Our resul

SUBMITTER: Hogye SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299713 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature