Cross-culture Of Chinese Secondary School Students With Respect To Effects Of Parenting Style On Bullying In School

Bullying refers to the negative behavior on hurting relatively weaker side acted by relatively stronger kind of people. In the recent 20 years, the bully problem in school is a hot topic in psychology study, there are many researches were focused on the problem. Psychologists from many countries achieved a lot on this field, but it still stays on the descriptive level. Cultural Comparison between two nations on this matter is rare.Many investigations have proven that the parenting style take effects on bullying in school. Thus, in this investigation, questionnaire is used to survey the 101 Chinese student of Malaysia and 85 student of China on the bullying problems in schools. The results indicated that:1. A serious bullying problems existed in secondary school of both nation countries. There are 23.8% of students of Malaysia involved in bullying problems, 76.2% of students are not involved. Meanwile, 21.2% of students of China are involved in bullying problems, 78.8% of students are no involved.2. Chi-square test indicated that bullies status is no significant differences in nationality and gender.3. Multivariate AVOVA indicated that mothers' punishment and rejecting parenting style have significant main effect with student bullying behavior in school. However, fathers' parenting styles have no significant influence on children.4. In Malaysia, mother of bullying/victimization children tends to be more punitive than mother of bullies, victims and no involved. In China, mother of victims tends to have more rejecting parenting styles than mother of no involved.