Perceived Parental Responsiveness and Neuroticism as Predictors of Bullying Behaviour Among In-School Adolescents in Ibadan, OYO State

Perceived Parental Responsiveness and Neuroticism as Predictors of Bullying Behaviour Among In-School Adolescents in Ibadan, OYO State | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Perceived Parental Responsiveness and Neuroticism as Predictors of Bullying Behaviour Among In-School Adolescents in Ibadan, OYO State Ezekiel O Aruoture, Mariam A Adegoke This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4601824/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Bullying has been seen as a public health issue given to the fact that it causes psychosocial and academic problems in thousands of children worldwide. This study investigated how perceived parental responsiveness and neuroticism predict bullying behaviour among in-school adolescents in Ibadan, Oyo state. A Cross-sectional research design, involving a purposively sampled 428 participants from both private and public secondary schools whose mean age of 15.06 ± 1.52 years was utilized. A 37-item self-report questionnaire comprising socio-demographics, perceived parental responsiveness (α = .93), neuroticism (α = .62), and bullying behaviour (α = .86) was administered. Four hypotheses were tested using multiple regression, t-test of independence and One-way ANOVA, at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that Perceived parental responsiveness and neuroticism jointly predicted bullying behaviour [F (2,363) = 56.40, R = .49, R 2 = .24, p < .001]. Independently, perceived parental responsiveness (β = − .46; t = -8.89; P < .001) and neuroticism (β = .14; t = 2.92; P < .05) significantly predicted bullying behaviour. Results further revealed that male adolescents ( = 13.12) reported significantly higher bullying behaviour than female adolescents ( = 10.31). Furthermore, the result revealed a significant difference in the mean score of parental marital status on bullying behaviours [F (4, 422) = 4.41; P < .01]. It was discovered that adolescents whose parents are divorced (x̅ = 19.73) reported higher bullying behaviour. More so, the result shows that bullying is higher in private schools than in public schools. Conclusively, bullying behaviour differs by gender, type of school, level of parental responsiveness, neuroticism and marital status of their parent. Biological sciences/Neuroscience Biological sciences/Psychology Bullying Behaviour Perceived Parental Responsiveness Neuroticism Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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