FAMILY COHESION AND BULLY VICTIMIZATION AS PREDICTORS OF INTERPERSONAL AND INTRAPERSONAL FACTORS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to explore the relationship between family cohesion, bullying victimization and emotional behavioral problems in school children. It was hypothesized that high family cohesion resulted in bullying victimization and emotional behavioral problems. The data was collected through purposive sampling of non-probability sampling. The sample of 225 children (53.8 % boys, 46.2% girls) with the age range of 9-17 (M= 14.78, SD=2.49) were from schools of Lahore. The measures of current study were comprised of Family Cohesion (Zahra & Saleem, 2021), Bullying Victimization Scale (Amjad, 2014), Emotional Behavioral Problem Scale (Saleem & Mahmood, 2011) and demographic Performa. The result showed that family cohesion has low but positive and significant relationship with bullying victimization. Emotional behavioral problems have significant, positive but low relationship with family cohesion. There is significant and moderately positive relationship between emotional behavioral problems and bullying victimization. It was also found from t-test that girls have more emotional behavioral problems than boys. To conclude, family and school both have significant role to play in children’s life as minor inconvenience in any of them leads to mental health issues.