Citation

Çetinkaya-Yıldız E, Hatipoğlu-Sümer Z. Violence Vict. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Springer Publishing)

DOI

10.1891/VV-D-18-00216

PMID

33122284

Abstract

This study investigated parental factors and beliefs supporting aggression as predictors of physical aggression by adolescents. The participants were 2,443 junior high school students from Ankara, Turkey, who completed measures of parental support for aggression, family conflict, parental monitoring, beliefs supporting aggression, and physical aggression. The findings showed both direct and indirect effects of parental factors on physical aggression through beliefs supporting aggression. Furthermore, a multigroup model comparison indicated invariance of the structural relationships among variables in the model across gender and that the hypothesized structural model was a close fit for both the girl and the boy data. The findings suggest that it might be beneficial to consider beliefs supporting aggression and parental factors as risk factors when designing interventions to target physical aggression among adolescents.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; family conflict; beliefs supporting aggression; parental monitoring; parental support for aggression; physical aggression