The Relationship Between Parenting Styles and Aggression in Children
With technology being implemented earlier and earlier into children’s lives, aggression is becoming more of an issue in children, especially with the popularity of violent video games. Could technology be the sole cause of the rise in child aggression? Some studies show that parents hold an influence over their child’s attitude and ultimately their aggressiveness. Unfortunately, there is little known research on the aforementioned relationship. As long as child aggression is on the rise, there can never be too much research on why children become aggressive and how it could be prevented. When backed up by the following research, parenting styles heavily affect aggression in …show more content…
The researchers randomly selected students from secondary schools in Spain, ranging in age from 12 to 19 years old (Gomez-Ortiz et al. 2016). The students were given various surveys to complete, asking questions concerning their parents’ parenting, any aggression or hostility in their households, and any bully activity going on in their lives. When the results were calculated, the researchers found that neither parent was more favorable with discipline. It was also found that the presence of physical discipline in the parenting style resulting in a higher change of either becoming a bully or becoming a victim (Gomez-Ortiz et al.). These results provide sufficient evidence to claim that less physical punishment in children and adolescents would lead to a decrease in the amount of bullying seen in the current …show more content…
It involved 392 children from age 6 to age 12 being admitted to psychiatric inpatient facility (Rathert et al. 2015). These children had to meet certain criteria in order to be admitted, such as having a developmental delay and having non-English speaking families. The children were given questionnaires with questions relating to proactive and reactive aggression. The researchers found that reactive aggression was positively correlated with authoritarian parenting, while it was negatively correlated with permissive parenting; proactive aggression was found to be positively correlated with both authoritarian and authoritative parenting, while there was no correlation present with permissive parenting. These results add more information to the small pool of knowns related to parenting styles and their effects of child
With technology being implemented earlier and earlier into children’s lives, aggression is becoming more of an issue in children, especially with the popularity of violent video games. Could technology be the sole cause of the rise in child aggression? Some studies show that parents hold an influence over their child’s attitude and ultimately their aggressiveness. Unfortunately, there is little known research on the aforementioned relationship. As long as child aggression is on the rise, there can never be too much research on why children become aggressive and how it could be prevented. When backed up by the following research, parenting styles heavily affect aggression in …show more content…
The researchers randomly selected students from secondary schools in Spain, ranging in age from 12 to 19 years old (Gomez-Ortiz et al. 2016). The students were given various surveys to complete, asking questions concerning their parents’ parenting, any aggression or hostility in their households, and any bully activity going on in their lives. When the results were calculated, the researchers found that neither parent was more favorable with discipline. It was also found that the presence of physical discipline in the parenting style resulting in a higher change of either becoming a bully or becoming a victim (Gomez-Ortiz et al.). These results provide sufficient evidence to claim that less physical punishment in children and adolescents would lead to a decrease in the amount of bullying seen in the current …show more content…
It involved 392 children from age 6 to age 12 being admitted to psychiatric inpatient facility (Rathert et al. 2015). These children had to meet certain criteria in order to be admitted, such as having a developmental delay and having non-English speaking families. The children were given questionnaires with questions relating to proactive and reactive aggression. The researchers found that reactive aggression was positively correlated with authoritarian parenting, while it was negatively correlated with permissive parenting; proactive aggression was found to be positively correlated with both authoritarian and authoritative parenting, while there was no correlation present with permissive parenting. These results add more information to the small pool of knowns related to parenting styles and their effects of child