Cognitive Insensitivity and Cognitive Impulsivity as Mediators of Bullying Continuity: Extending the Psychological Inertia Construct to Bullying Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Walters, Glenn D.; Espelage, Dorothy L.
Titel	Cognitive Insensitivity and Cognitive Impulsivity as Mediators of Bullying Continuity: Extending the Psychological Inertia Construct to Bullying Behavior
Quelle	In: School Psychology Quarterly, 33 (2018) 4, S.527-536 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1045-3830
DOI	10.1037/spq0000240
Schlagwörter	Psychological Patterns; Bullying; Social Influences; Cognitive Processes; Behavior Problems; Predictor Variables; Behavior Modification; Self Control; Conceptual Tempo; Middle School Students; Student Behavior; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Family Influence; Victims; Delinquency; Illinois + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mobbing; Sozialer Einfluss; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Prädiktor; Behaviour modification; Verhaltensänderung; Selbstbeherrschung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Victim; Opfer; Kriminalität
Abstract	Psychological inertia, the process by which social-cognitive variables help maintain behavioral patterns over time, has been found to explain crime continuity. The present study sought to determine whether psychological inertia can also be used to explain continuity in bullying behavior. A group of 1,161 youth (567 male) from the Illinois Study of Bullying and Sexual Violence were surveyed 3 times over a period of 1 year in an effort to determine which of two dimensions of precriminal cognition-cognitive insensitivity (callous, self-serving) or cognitive impulsivity (reckless, emotional)-mediated the past bullying-future bullying relationship. Consistent with research on crime continuity, cognitive impulsivity mediated bullying continuity, but cognitive insensitivity did not. Congruent with research on psychological inertia and crime continuity, the main reason why cognitive insensitivity did not mediate bullying continuity was that prior bullying behavior failed to predict subsequent cognitive insensitivity. In addition to providing support for a 2-dimensional (insensitivity, impulsivity) model of bullying development, these results suggest that 1 way bullying behavior can be managed is by challenging and reducing cognitive impulsivity, which in the current study was found to be a major contributor to bullying continuity. (As Provided).
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