Karishma Shekhawat and Krishna Kumar Mishra
National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar
When someone intentionally humiliates or hurt the feelings of other person not only in
front of other people but also behind the back of that person then it is said to be known as
bullying. It can include both physical and mental harassment. Victims of bullying undergo
mental trauma and it can cause lasting effects on their emotion regulation strategies and
mental health. They also face difficulties in forming warm and trusting relationships due
to low psychological well-being. This study aimed at examining the effects of bullying on
mental health of both bully and victim. It also aimed at exploring association between
parental control, bullying, and emotion regulation. 274 college students participated in
this study and convenience sampling was done. It was found that, there is no direct
association between parental control and bullying. But, expressive suppression strategy
of emotion regulation influences the relationship of bully behaviour and parental control.
Higher parental control at early age of participant and higher expressive suppression
will contribute lowering the bully attitude. Also, if parental control is low and expressive
suppression is also low then bullying attitude in the child will be high. Higher control of
father results in decreased mental health and higher control of mother results in lowering
all the aspects of mental health which are hedonic, social and psychological well-being.
Mental health of victim of bullying was also found to be low. Also, males use more of
expressive suppression than females.