Developing high emotional competency is important as it affects an individual’s future social ability, psychological and emotional wellbeing. Especially in children and adolescents, emotional competency must be shaped and enhanced during that period. Therefore in that stage, the family plays an important role in helping children and adolescents to develop emotional competency. If emotional competency was not well developed, when children and adolescents moved to later stages in life, they tend to engage in deviant and risky behaviors, such as cyberbullying. In this paper, the antecedents of emotional competency are discussed, by putting the focus on the role of family education and family as a role model. Family is the closest environment a child or adolescent gets in touch with. Without a proper education regarding emotions, they might not have the ability to properly recognize, be aware and regulate emotions. Besides that, this paper will also discuss several aspects related to cyberbullying such as its prevalence among children and adolescents, factors influencing cyberbullying, and the role of the family in strengthening or weakening the relationship between emotional competence and cyberbullying. In a nutshell, family plays a vital role in creating environments that could positively enhance children’s and adolescents’ learning of emotional expressivity, emotional understanding, and emotional regulation. Subsequently, reduce the prevalence of cyberbullying.
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