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Investigating the effects of autonomy-supportive parenting practices on Italian young adolescent students’ motivation to defend victims of bullying: findings on the mediating roles of reactance, depression, anxiety, and stress
Originally published 2023-04-20 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1156807 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
How might supporting a child’s own judgment relate to their willingness to stand up for someone?
The study connects supported self-direction with adolescents’ reasons for defending peers. It provides a bridge between independence and prosocial agency while keeping the focus on autonomous motivation.
Who was studied?
578 students from five middle schools in the Turin metropolitan area, Italy.
Age / stage: 10–14 years
Read with three questions
- How did the study distinguish autonomous from externally driven defending motivation?
- What role was proposed for reactance?
- Why can self-reported motivation not establish actual defending behavior or causality?
Keep the limits in view
Convenience sampling and child-only reports limit inference. The study was not an intervention and measured reported motivation rather than observed protection of peers.
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Nathaniel Oliver Iotti; Damiano Menin; Claudio Longobardi; Tomas Jungert (2023). Investigating the effects of autonomy-supportive parenting practices on Italian young adolescent students’ motivation to defend victims of bullying: findings on the mediating roles of reactance, depression, anxiety, and stress Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1156807
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