Prevention 2.0: Targeting cyberbullying @ school.

Autor/inn/en	Wölfer, Ralf; Schultze-Krumbholz, Anja; Zagorscak, Pavle; Jäkel, Anne; Göbel, Kristin; Scheithauer, Herbert
Titel	Prevention 2.0: Targeting cyberbullying @ school.
Quelle	In: Prevention science, 15 (2014) 6, S. 879-887 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1389-4986; 1573-6695
DOI	10.1007/s11121-013-0438-y
Schlagwörter	Schule; Sekundarbereich; Schüler; Schülerin; Mobbing; Intervention; Prävention; Internet
Abstract	Although cyberbullying is characterized by worrying prevalence rates and associated with a broad range of detrimental consequences, there is a lack of scientifically based and evaluated preventive strategies. Therefore, the present study introduces a theory-based cyberbullying prevention program (Media Heroes; German original: Medienhelden) and evaluates its effectiveness. In a pretest-posttest design (9-month interval), schools were asked to randomly assign their participating classes to either control or intervention group. Longitudinal data were available from 593 middle school students (M (Age) = 13.3 years, 53 % girls) out of 35 classes, who provided information on cyberbullying behavior as well as socio-demographic and psychosocial variables. While the present results revealed worrying prevalence rates of cyberbullying in middle school, multilevel analyses clearly demonstrate the program's effectiveness in reducing cyberbullying behavior within intervention classes in contrast to classes of the control group. Hence, this study presents a promising program which evidentially prevents cyberbullying in schools. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2026/3