The Relationship between Parental Rearing Patterns and Teenagers Teasing

Tianmei Zhou^1*, Li Luo²

¹Teacher Education College, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China.
²Institute of Geography & Resources Science, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, China.

DOI: 10.4236/psych.2015.612143                

Abstract

This paper examines how and to what extent parental rearing patterns influence the type of teenage teasing and its impact by making use of a Chinese version Egna Minnen Barndoms Uppfostran (EMBU). The participants include 582 adolescents in 7th-, 8th-, 9th-, 10th-, 11th- and 12th- grades from 2 schools in 2 cities in Sichuan province, China. The results show that teasing of physical appearance and social behavior occurs often, and that the impact of social behavior and performance is the greatest. The study finds that teenage teasing varies significantly depending on the subject’s gender, whether it occurs in urban or rural settings, whether the teenagers are left-behind or non-left-behind, as well as the level of paternal educational. Positive parental rearing practices (that involve emotional warmth) are also found to be negatively correlated with teenage teasing and its influence (except academics); while negative parental rearing patterns (rejection, punishment, control and favoring subject) are positively correlated with teenage teasing and its influence, among which paternal rejection and parental control have the greatest influence on teenagers teasing and its influence.

Keywords

Teenagers, Parental Rearing Patterns, Teasing, Cross-Sectional Study

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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