[Association between parenting styles and the role of Peruvian adolescents in bullying, 2019Associação entre estilos parentais e o papel de adolescentes peruanos no bullying, 2019].

INTRODUCTION

Parenting styles determine child behavior; however, there is little information on their impact on bullying.

OBJECTIVE

To determine the association between different parenting styles and the role assumed in bullying, as well as to identify adolescents' profiles according to their involvement in bullying.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted in Lima, Peru, in 2019. The Steinberg's Parenting Styles Scale and the European Bullying Intervention Project Questionnaire (EBIP-Q) were administered to 563 students from public schools. Scores were obtained by confirmatory factor analysis. Spearman's correlation coefficient, Pearson's Chi-square test, and multinomial logistic regression analysis were used.

RESULTS

There is an association between parenting styles and adolescents' role in bullying. The multivariate analysis reported that being male was associated with the role of the bully (OR: 2.73; 95% CI 1.59-4.68), while access to social media (OR: 2.23; CI 95% 1.11-4.49), being male (OR: 1.75; CI=1.06-2.88), and parenting styles (neglectful [OR: 2.72; 95% CI 1.32-5.59] and mixed [OR: 0.38; 95% CI 0.16-0.91] compared to authoritarian parenting style) were predictors of the role of the victimized bully.

DISCUSSION

The association found in the study confirms previous findings; however, it opens the debate on the influence of neglectful parenting style on bullying dynamics.

CONCLUSIONS

Both neglectful and authoritarian parenting styles (lower proportion) have a positive and significant effect on the role of victimized bully.