Assessing the Links Between Parenting Practices, Moral Emotions, and Cyberbullying Perpetrations Among a Sample of Iranian Sports Fans

Abstract

Parenting practices have direct effects on children’s moral development and delinquency. A growing empirical literature also documents the influence of morality on offending patterns. Yet, our understanding of the interrelationships among parenting practices, morality, and cyberbullying is limited. This study contributes to and extends this line of research by examining the extent to which moral emotions mediate the relationship between parenting practices and sports fans’ cyberbullying. We used a sample of 384 Iranian high school students from the 35th Boys Sports Olympiad Tournament in Shiraz, Iran. The results from structural modeling analysis show that both parenting practices and moral emotions are associated with the likelihood of sports fans’ decision to perpetrate cyberbullying and that moral emotions mediate the association between parenting practices and cyberbullying. The robust and consistent patterns of the results signify the importance of parenting and moral development in curbing the problem of cyberbullying.

The permissive non-parental childcare and moral intelligence: Indonesian setting

“…In light of this phenomenon, this study aims to explore non-parental care for the development of moral intelligence, considering that many parents have the potential to entrust childcare to non-parental care. Research on the role of non-parental caregivers in the development of moral intelligence is very important because parents are the strongest moral agents [24], [25]. Previous studies partially address non-parental care and no one has extensively discussed the effects of non-parental care on moral intelligence.…”