A new approach to children's education quarterly

A new approach to children's education quarterly

Develop a structural model of bullying based on unpleasant childhood experiences, resilience and self-pity with the mediating role of emotional self-regulation in delinquent adolescents

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Masoomeh Eftekhari 1
Hadi Hashemi Razini 2
Asghar Jafari 3
1 PhD student Islamic Azad University - - - Department of General Psychology, Saveh branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran - eftekhari1347@gmail.com
2 Assistant Professor Kharazmi University - - - Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran - Hadihashemi@khu.ac.ir
3 mr Asghar Jafari - Associate Professor University of Kashan - - - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran. - asgarjafary@gmail.com
10.22034/naes.2024.478629.1557
Abstract
Background: Adolescence is one of the most sensitive and critical periods in the development of every human being.
Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the structural model of bullying based on unpleasant childhood experiences, resilience and self-compassion with the mediator role of emotional self-regulation in delinquent teenagers.
Method: The current research was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of the method of data collection, it was descriptive-correlation type, using the method of structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this study included all juvenile delinquents, boys and girls aged 14 to 18, who were kept in the correctional centers of Tehran province in 1400. From among the mentioned statistical population, 350 people were selected by available sampling method and entered the research as a sample group. The tools used in this research include the bullying questionnaire (Ily Noiz, 2001), the child abuse scale (Mohammadkhani et al., 2011), the Connor Davidson resilience questionnaire (2003), the self-compassion scale (Neff, 2003), and the emotional styles questionnaire (Hoffman and Kashdan, 2010). ) was Finally, data analysis was done by path analysis method. All analyzes were done using SPSS26 and AMOS24 software. Bootstrap method was also used to analyze mediating relationships.
Findings: The findings of the present study showed that there is a relationship between unpleasant childhood experiences, resilience, self-compassion and emotional self-regulation with bullying (P<0.001); Also, emotional self-regulation plays a mediating role in the relationship between resilience and bullying, as well as self-compassion and bullying (P<0.001).
Conclusion: According to the findings of the research, it is suggested that health therapists pay attention to the findings of this research and the discussion of self-compassion, resilience and self-regulation of emotions in order to enrich their diagnostic formulation in the conditions of bullying behaviors in delinquent teenagers, and if they find the root in it, from the related interventions. take psychological advantage in this regard.
Keywords
bullying
Unpleasant childhood experiences
resilience
self pity

Subjects

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A new approach to children's education quarterly
Volume 5, Issue 3 - Serial Number 17
Spring 2024
Pages 185-190

  • Receive Date 15 September 2023
  • Revise Date 19 November 2023
  • Accept Date 19 November 2023
  • First Publish Date 22 November 2023
  • Publish Date 22 November 2023