Parenting behavior and the risk of becoming a victim and a bully/victim: a meta-analysis study.

TLDR: Positive parenting behavior is related to a moderate increase of risk for becoming a bully/victim and small to moderate effects on victim status at school, and intervention programs against bullying should extend their focus to include families and start before children enter school.

About: This article is published in Child Abuse & Neglect.The article was published on 2013-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 416 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Parenting styles & Peer victimization.

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Table 3: Publication Bias Analyses for Bully/victims

Table 2: Publication Bias Analyses for Victims

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Q1. What are the contributions in this paper?

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Q2. What is the recent study of bullying among girls?

Associations between caregiver support, bullying, and depressive symptomatology among sexual minority and heterosexual girls: Results from the 2008 Boston youth survey. 

Q3. What is the effect of supervision on victims?

supervisioncategory showed moderating effects according to continent (Qb = 16.862; p < 0.001) withEuropean studies finding less supervision for victims (Mean ES = -0.311; p < 0.001; N = 1). 

Q4. 0.000 Franic et al., 2011 Croatia 11872 -0.30?

Cheng et al., 2010 China 9015 -0.18 -0.27 -0.10 -4.22 0.000 Demanet & Van Houtte, 2012 Belgium 11872 -0.02 -0.09 0.05 -0.56 0.579 Demaray & Malecki, 2003 US 499 -0.36 -0.63 -0.09 -2.57 0.010 Fanti, Demetriou, Hawa, 2012 Cyprus 1416 -0.40 -0.47 -0.33 -11.46 0.000 Franic et al., 2011 Croatia 803 -0.30 -0.44 -0.17 -4.31 0.000 Holt & Espelage, 2007 US 784 -0.38 -0.60 -0.16 -3.44 0.001 Ma, 2001 Canada 13751 -0.01 -0.02 0.01 -0.71 0.480 Marini et al., 2006 Canada 7290 -0.28 -0.35 -0.21 -7.84 0.000 Murray-Harvey & Slee, 2010 Australia 888 -0.22 -0.30 -0.15 -5.66 0.000 Perren & Hornung, 2005 Switzerland 1107 -0.24 -0.54 0.07 -1.54 0.125 

Q5. What is the significance of the asymmetry in the linear regression analysis?

In the linear regression analysis, theintercept value provides a measure of asymmetry; the larger its deviation from zero, the morepronounced the asymmetry (Egger, Smith, Schneider, & Minder, 1997). 

Q6. What is the effect of parental involvement and support on bullying victims?

Bully-victims: Parental involvement and support showed significant moderator effectsaccording to the assessment method (Qb = 7.03; p < 0.05) suggesting that children who self-reported victimization (Mean ES = -0.35; p < 0.001; N = 8) were less likely to have parentswho are involved and supportive. 

Q7. Why are children more likely to be victims of bullying?

The reasonbehind developing such problems may be partly due to exposure to harsher parenting ratherthan being a bully and victim simultaneous. 

Q8. What is the significance of the correlation between variance and effect size?

if small studies with controversial results were lesslikely to be published, the correlation between variance and effect size would be high. 

Q9. How many studies were included in the meta-analysis?

70 studies (N=119 samples for victims; N=55 samples for bully/victims)were included in the meta-analysis and are shown in Table 1.