Introduction:

Parenting styles determine child behavior; however, there is little information on their impact on bullying.

Objective:

To determine the association between different parenting styles and the role assumed in bullying, as well as to identify adolescents' profiles according to their involvement in bullying.

Materials and Methods:

A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted in Lima, Peru, in 2019. The Steinberg's Parenting Styles Scale and the European Bullying Intervention Project Questionnaire (EBIP-Q) were administered to 563 students from public schools. Scores were obtained by confirmatory factor analysis. Spearman's correlation coefficient, Pearson's Chi-square test, and multinomial logistic regression analysis were used.

Results:

There is an association between parenting styles and adolescents' role in bullying. The multivariate analysis reported that being male was associated with the role of the bully (OR: 2.73; 95% CI 1.59-4.68), while access to social media (OR: 2.23; CI 95% 1.11-4.49), being male (OR: 1.75; CI=1.06-2.88), and parenting styles (neglectful [OR: 2.72; 95% CI 1.32-5.59] and mixed [OR: 0.38; 95% CI 0.16-0.91] compared to authoritarian parenting style) were predictors of the role of the victimized bully.

Discussion:

The association found in the study confirms previous findings; however, it opens the debate on the influence of neglectful parenting style on bullying dynamics.

Conclusions:

Both neglectful and authoritarian parenting styles (lower proportion) have a positive and significant effect on the role of victimized bully.

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