RT Journal Article
T1 Parental Phubbing and Parenting Styles' Effect on Adolescent Bullying Involvement Depending on Their Attachments to Significant Adults
A1 Roh, Myunghoon
A1 Parti, Katalin
A1 Gómez Baya, Diego
A1 Sanders, Cheryl E.
A1 Englander, Elizabeth K.
AB Background: Bullying is a current social and educational problem with detrimental consequences in adolescence and later life stages. Previous research has explored the risk or protective factor at different socio-ecological levels, but further integration is needed to examine the relationships of family characteristics. This study examines how parenting style and attachment relate to adolescents’ bullying and cyberbullying, and whether parental phubbing mediates these links. Methods: Grounded in social bonding theory, we surveyed a cross-sectional convenience sample of U.S. college students (N = 545; Meanage = 19.60, SD = 1.41) who retrospectively reported middle/high-school experiences from Massachusetts, Colorado, and Virginia. Measures followed established traditions of bullying involvement, parenting style, and partner phubbing). Linear regressions tested associations among parenting style, attachment to parents/teachers, parental phubbing, and bullying/cyberbullying offending and victimization. Results: Stronger parental attachment and democratic (authoritative) parenting were associated with lower bullying victimization, and teacher attachment was protective for offline and overall offending. Critically, parents’ excessive personal technology use (phubbing) mediated the link between democratic parenting and bullying outcomes: high parental device use attenuated or nullified the protective association of democratic parenting. Conclusion: Findings reaffirm the value of nurturing, boundary-setting parenting and close parent–child/teacher bonds, while highlighting a contemporary risk—parental device-related inattention. Despite rapid technological change, the core need for stable human connection remains central to reducing bullying involvement.
PB Tech Science Press
SN 1462-3730
SN 2049-8543 (electrónico)
YR 2026
FD 2026
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/28559
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/28559
LA eng
NO Roh, M., Parti, K., Gómez-Baya, D., Sanders, C. E., & Englander, E. K. (2026). Parental Phubbing and Parenting Styles’ Effect on Adolescent Bullying Involvement Depending on Their Attachments to Significant Adults. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 28(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.32604/ijmhp.2025.072605
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 2 jul 2026