Victims of Bullying

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Santrock reviews research that indicates victims of bullies tend to have parents who are anxious and overprotective (Olweus, 1980), intrusive, demanding, and unresponsive (Ladd & Kochenderfer, 2017). Ladd and Kochenderfer also found boys who have emotionally close relationships with their parents are more likely to be victimized. However, children with positive parenting behaviors are less likely to become victims of bullying or bully-victims (Lereya et al., 2013). Olweus also found that the parents of bullies are more likely to be rejecting, authoritarian, or permissive about their son’s aggression.

Olweus studied bullying early before America was interested in the phenomenon in schools etc.., hence the early cited work. Review the above research findings and respond with potential explanations for these findings. In other words, why would there be a relationship between being a victim of bullying and having parents who are anxious and overprotective?

Use this intro as a launch point to discuss the bullying phenomenon – use your text page 503-504 to help you get started.

Do you agree with the above comments? Do you think there are greater issues related to children being bullied? what about cyber -bullying?

Make sure you respond using empirical support – not just what you think maybe going on, or may be occurring with your own child. It is important to stay objective with such “hot” topics.