Siham Amjad2014-10-022014-10-022014https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/1292This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Perceived Parental Disharmony and Experience of Bullying Victimization in school children. The study was carried out in four phases. In first phase, a total of 60 participants (30 boys and 30 girls) were selected for exploring phenomenology of perceived parental disharmony and bullying victimization was explored. In phase II, empirical validation was carried out on 5 experienced clinical psychologists for the cultural relevance of the scales (Perceived Parental Disharmony Scale, PPDS and Bullying Victimization Scale, BVS). In phase III, pilot study was carried out on 20 participants for testing the layout of the two scales. In the main study, a total of 380 participants (49% Boys and 51% girls) selected through multi-stage sampling with the age range of 12 - 18 years (M=14.78, SD=1.33) were given a demographic Performa, PPDS, BVS and School Children Problem Scale (SCPS, Saleem & Mahmood, 2011). Principal Component Factor Analysis revealed a three factor solution for perceived parental disharmony namely lack of understanding, lack of trust and financial issues. It also revealed three factors solution for bullying victimization namely emotional bullying, verbal bullying and physical bullying. The findings showed that there is a significant positive relationship between experience of bullying victimization and perceived parental disharmony.enMS ThesisClinical PsychologyThesis