Violent and Prosocial Behavior by Adolescents Toward Parents and Teachers in a Community Sample

Abstract

This study focused on violent and prosocial behaviors by adolescents toward parents and teachers, and the relation between such behaviors and adolescents' perceptions about the family and school environment. Gender differences in child-to-parent violence and student-to-teacher violence were also studied. The sample comprised 687 adolescents from secondary schools in the province of Gipuzkoa, Spain, aged between 12 and 16 years. Participants responded to the relationship domains of the Family Environment Scale and the Classroom Environment Scale, among other instruments. A positive family relationship was related to less violent and more prosocial behavior toward parents. However, a positive classroom relationship was associated only with more prosocial behavior toward teachers. The results show that criminal and antisocial behaviors had a mediating influence on the relation between family and school relationships and violence against authority. The implications for intervention and prevention programs are discussed. C 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Adolescents as perpetrators of aggression within the family

“…Those with disruptive behavior disorders may lack control over their emotions -including having difficulties in managing relationships with others, rule breaking, and experiencing angry outbursts, all of which may put them at risk of aggressive behavior (Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1978). This was also supported by the results from a prior study where young people who were aggressive toward their parents displayed externalizing symptoms as well as antisocial and delinquent behaviors (Jaureguizar, Ibabe, & Straus, 2013).…”

Corporal punishment by parents and child-to-parent aggression in Spanish adolescents

“…The third aim of the study was to analyze whether sex moderates the association between CP and CPA. As in the previous point, there are inconsistencies in previous studies regarding the role of the child's sex in CPA (e.g., Gámez-Guadix & Calvete, 2012;Jaureguizar, Ibabe, & Straus, 2013). Nevertheless, attending to one of the few studies conducted in the Spanish population in which sex did not moderate the association between CP and behavior problems in adolescents, we hypothesized that the child's sex would not moderate the predictive relationship between CP and future CPA .…”

“…Furthermore, there is no agreement about the role of the child's sex and CPA. Although some studies have indicated that there are no sex differences (Gámez-Guadix & Calvete, 2012;Pagani et al, 2004Pagani et al, , 2009), other studies have suggested that girls are more likely to have higher scores on psychological CPV (e.g., Calvete et al, 2013;Jaureguizar, Ibabe, & Straus, 2013) and boys on physical CPV (e.g., Brezina, 1999;Calvete et al, 2011;Ibabe, Jaureguizar, & Bentler, 2013).…”

Teorías sobre el inicio de la violencia filio-parental desde la perspectiva parental: un estudio exploratorio

“…En este orden de ideas, se ha observado que los jóvenes violentos en el hogar tienen relaciones familiares poco gratificantes, se identifican más con su grupo de pares que con sus progenitores y valoran a los amigos como los principales proveedores de apoyo emocional (Paulson et al, 1990). En esta línea, Ibabe et al (2007) señalan que el 65% de los jóvenes que maltratan a sus progenitores se relacionan con grupos disociales y violentos; asimismo, un 61.4% y un 65.2% presentan conductas violentas hacia iguales y conductas violentas hacia adultos, respectivamente, en especial contra otras figuras adultas de autoridad como los profesores (Ibabe et al, 2013b;Jaureguizar, Ibabe y Straus, 2013).…”

“…También hay una serie de actividades prohibidas (abuso de sustancias, robo, absentismo escolar) llevadas a cabo con el grupo de iguales que, con frecuencia, generan luchas de poder en el hogar cuando los padres tratan de establecer límites más firmes, normalmente, cuando ya es demasiado tarde. Recientemente, Jaureguizar et al (2013) encuentran que la presencia de conductas antisociales es una de las variables mediadoras más importantes entre las relaciones familiares y la VFP, destacando la importancia de profundizar en este tipo de estudios.…”