The Optimal Mathematical Model for The Relationship between Perceived Self-Efficacy and Bullying among Tenth Grade Students In The Light of Parenting Styles .

Abstract

The Optimal Mathematical Model for The Relationship between Perceived Self-Efficacy and Bullying among Tenth Grade Students

In The Light of Parenting Styles .

          This study aimed to know the level of bullying, perceived self-efficacy, and parental patterns among tenth grade students in Mafraq Governorate, in addition to knowing the correlation of bullying behavior with perceived self-efficacy and parental patterns, and to identify the differences in the relationship of bullying and perceived self-efficacy in the presence of parental patterns and gender, and as the study sought To explain the relationship between bullying and perceived self-efficacy in the light of parental patterns by verifying a proposed model for the relationship between variables, and to achieve the aim of the study, the researchers developed three scales. (Bullying Scale, Perceived Self-Efficacy, Parental Styles) applied to a sample of (1140) tenth grade students The study used the descriptive correlational approach, where the results indicated that the level of bullying was low and the level of perceived self-efficacy was high, and that the democratic style was the dominant style over other parental styles. In the light of parental patterns, the results revealed a statistically significant correlation between perceived self-efficacy and bullying in favor of females, with a z value of (-2.16). As the results showed, there is a direct causal relationship between self-efficacy and bullying without the presence of a mediator, which amounted to (0.815), and that there is a direct causal relationship between self-efficacy and bullying in light of the presence of parental patterns as a mediating variable, which amounted to (0.098), and the existence of an indirect causal relationship between self-efficacy and bullying in The presence of parental patterns as a mediator variable amounted to (0.080).

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Keywords: Perceived Self-Efficacy, Bullying, Parenting Styles, Tenth Grade Students.