Parental Treatment Styles and Their Relationship to Bullying Among Children: A Field Study of a Sample of Female Secondary School Students in Public Schools in Benghazi City

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify the nature of the relationship between parental treatment methods and bullying of female secondary school students in the city of Benghazi. The study also aims to identify the types of bullying prevalent among female students and parental treatment methods related to it. The study utilized the descriptive approach. To achieve the objectives, a questionnaire was developed based on some previous studies and the size of the study population, (12192) female students in the three different levels, according to the Benghazi educational offices, the Al - Salawi educational office, the Al-Baraka educational office, the center Benghazi educational office. The study used a stratified random sample. Its size (372) female students, is a systematic random sample was used to choose the final sample. The evidence of the study indicated that there is a statistically significant relationship between parental treatment styles and bullying among female secondary school students in the city of Benghazi. The  evidence also showed a statistically significant relationship between neglect style and verbal and physical bullying, as well as, a statistically significant relationship between the overprotective style and verbal and physical bullying among female secondary school students in the city of Benghazi. Furthermore, is a statistically significant relationship between the method of discrimination in treatment and verbal and physical bullying among these students. the results On the other hand indicated that there is no relationship between the democratic style and verbal and physical bullying among general secondary school students in the city of Benghazi.