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. 2022 Dec 6;19(23):16346.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph192316346.

The Associations between Sibling Victimization, Sibling Bullying, Parental Acceptance-Rejection, and School Bullying

Aiche Sabah  1 , Musheer A Aljaberi  2   3   4 , Chung-Ying Lin  5 , Hsin-Pao Chen  6
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The Associations between Sibling Victimization, Sibling Bullying, Parental Acceptance-Rejection, and School Bullying

Aiche Sabah et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Bullying has been identified as the most common form of aggression experienced by school-age youth. However, it is still unclear about the family's influence on school bullying. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the associations between sibling bullying and school bullying, sibling victimization and school victimization, and parental acceptance-rejection and school bullying victimization. The study was cross-sectional and conducted on a sample of students aged between 11 and 20 years recruited from middle schools in Algeria. The study used a survey adopted from the scale of Sibling Bullying, Student Survey of Bullying Behavior-Revised 2, and the Survey of parental acceptance-rejection in collecting the data. The model's results assessing the association between sibling bullying and school bullying demonstrated that the effect of sibling physical and sibling verbal victims on school victimization was statistically significant. Despite the non-significant effect of sibling emotional victims on school victimization, the effect of sibling physical and sibling verbal bullying on school bullying was statistically significant. However, the effect of sibling emotional bullying on school bullying was not statistically significant. The direct effect of parental acceptance on school victimization was not statistically significant, whereas the effect of parental rejection on school victimization was statistically significant. The direct effect of parental acceptance on school bullying was not statistically significant, while the effect of parental rejection on school bullying was statistically significant. Based on the results, this study provides insights into the understanding of how the family and siblings contribute to school bullying. In particular, sibling victimization, sibling bullying, and parental acceptance-rejection are predictive factors of school bullying among adolescents. Future research should take into account factors based on family to explore the risks of school bullying.

Keywords: adolescent students; children’s health; parental acceptance and rejection; school bullying; sibling bullying; violence.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Structural model for research question 1. Note the structural equation modeling links between physical, emotional, and verbal bullying practiced against the brothers (the victim) as an independent variable and school victimization as a dependent variable.
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Structural model for research question 2. Note the structural equation modeling links between physical, emotional, and verbal bullying by brothers (the bullying) as an independent variable and school bullying as a dependent variable.
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Structural model for research question 3. Note the structural equation modeling links between parental acceptance and rejection as an independent variable and school victimization as a dependent variable.
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Figure 4
Structural model for research question 4. Note the structural equation modeling links between parental rejection of adolescents as an independent variable and school bullying as a dependent variable.
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