Parental support and bullying: an imperative factor to promote Malaysian adolescents’ life satisfaction
Bullying has become widespread among secondary school students. Early life experiences in bullying may have long-term impact on multiple facets of adulthood especially life satisfaction, making parental support is crucial. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of bullying and pare...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2024
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24588/1/Psikologi_38_2_4.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24588/ https://spaj.ukm.my/ppppm/jpm/issue/view/51 |
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| Summary: | Bullying has become widespread among secondary school students. Early life experiences in
bullying may have long-term impact on multiple facets of adulthood especially life satisfaction,
making parental support is crucial. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of
bullying and parental support on adolescents’ life satisfaction. A cross-sectional survey design
was employed. Students' Life Satisfaction Scale, Personal Experience Checklist, and Child and
Adolescent Social Support Scale were completed by 417 adolescents. A significant main effect
of parental support on life satisfaction was found using factorial ANOVA. Among the cultural
and relation-based bully groups, parental support had a substantial main effect on life
satisfaction. Low life satisfaction was revealed to have a significant main effect across low
experiences of physical, cyber, and relation-based bully groups. No significant interaction
effect was discovered in any of the combinations. High parental support, has a favourable
impact on adolescents' life experiences. Students with lower ratings on physical, cyber, and
relational experiences, had better life satisfaction. Findings suggest that parents are encouraged
to become more conscious of their roles in supporting their children's life journey in achieving
healthy life satisfaction. Schools should consider the findings of this study into account when
implementing the Parent-Teacher Association regulations. |
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