Bullying and Its Association with Altruism toward Victims, Blaming the Victims, and Classroom Prevalence of Bystander Behaviors: A Multilevel Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Thornberg, Robert; Wänström, Linda
Titel	Bullying and Its Association with Altruism toward Victims, Blaming the Victims, and Classroom Prevalence of Bystander Behaviors: A Multilevel Analysis
Quelle	In: Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 21 (2018) 5, S.1133-1151 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Thornberg, Robert)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1381-2890
DOI	10.1007/s11218-018-9457-7
Schlagwörter	Bullying; Victims; Self Determination; Social Cognition; Altruism; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Incidence; Intervention; Student Attitudes; Elementary School Students; Student Motivation; Classroom Techniques; Student Behavior; Prevention; Self Concept; Foreign Countries; Correlation; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mobbing; Victim; Opfer; Selbstbestimmung; Soziale Kognition; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Vorkommen; Schülerverhalten; Schulische Motivation; Klassenführung; Student behaviour; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Selbstkonzept; Ausland; Korrelation; Schweden
Abstract	With reference to social-ecological, self-determination, attributional, and social cognitive theories, the current study examined whether gender, age, altruistic motivation to defend victims, and tendency to blame the victims, at the individual level, and the prevalence of reinforcing and defending, at the classroom level, were associated with bullying. A sample of 901 Swedish students (9-13 years old, M = 11.00, SD = 0.83) from 43 classrooms filled out a questionnaire. Multilevel regression analyses revealed that the perpetration of bullying was positively associated with the prevalence of reinforcing at the classroom level and blaming the victims at the individual level, whereas it was negatively associated with altruistic motivation to defend victims of bullying at the individual level. Furthermore, students with high altruistic motivation to defend victims of bullying were less inclined to bully, independent of the classroom level of reinforcing. The current study suggests that bullying prevention and intervention programs should: explicitly target bystander behaviors, in particular to reduce the prevalence of reinforcing bullying; include efforts to strengthen altruistic self-concept and motivation to defend victims; and prevent, challenge, and counteract tendencies among students to blame the victim. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01