The Impact of Parental Factors on Physical Aggression Perpetration among Turkish Urban Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Beliefs Supporting Aggression

ÇETİNKAYA YILDIZ E., Hatipoglu-Sumer Z.

VIOLENCE AND VICTIMS, vol.36, no.1, pp.132-156, 2021 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 36 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.1891/vv-d-18-00216
  • Journal Name: VIOLENCE AND VICTIMS
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, ATLA Religion Database, CINAHL, Criminal Justice Abstracts, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Political Science Complete, Psycinfo, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Violence & Abuse Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  • Page Numbers: pp.132-156
  • Keywords: physical aggression, parental support for aggression, family conflict, parental monitoring, beliefs supporting aggression, adolescent
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes

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.