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Ruth Jeong – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Bullying is a social phenomenon that involves more participants than the bully and the victim. Since the identification of other bullying participant behaviors, endeavors have been made to explore what inclines a person to defend a victim of bullying. With the social cognitive theory in mind, the current study examined whether students' level of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Teacher Student Relationship, Social Cognition, Ethics
Mauduy, Maxime; Bagneux, Virginie; Sénémeaud, Cécile – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
In school bullying, witnesses play a fundamental role because their defensive reactions can stop bullying situations. However, a great majority of witnesses remain passive despite their prodefense personal beliefs. To address this gap between witnesses' beliefs and behaviors, we developed and tested two social psychology strategies, namely, the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Audiences, Beliefs, Student Behavior
Zhongjie Wang; Jingke He; Xuezhen Wang; Ying Peng; Juanjuan Zheng – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Bullying victimization is a significant public health concern and has been associated with various mental health problems. This study aims to investigate the heterogeneity and transition patterns of bullying victimization among Chinese adolescents, and the influence of interpersonal relationships on the dynamic process of victimization over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Massey, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quasi-experimental, ex post facto correlational study was to determine, within a racially imbalanced educational setting, what impact, if any, a seventh or eighth grade student's race had on their perceived connectedness to school. For this study, perceived connectedness to school was measured by responses to a Likert-like…
Descriptors: Racial Composition, Student School Relationship, Grade 7, Grade 8
Matthew Peck; Diana M. Doumas; Aida Midget – Professional Counselor, 2024
Researchers have utilized the Bystander Intervention Model to conceptualize bullying bystander behavior. The five-step model includes Notice the Event, Interpret the Event as an Emergency, Accept Responsibility, Know How to Act, and Decision to Intervene. The purpose of this study was to examine outcomes of an evidence-based bystander training…
Descriptors: Audiences, Intervention, Middle School Students, Attention
Lydia Laninga-Wijnen; J. Loes Pouwels; Matteo Giletta; Christina Salmivalli – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: School bullying is a group phenomenon in which being defended by peer bystanders may buffer against the development of psychological problems in victims. Aims: This registered report examines whether being defended diminished victims' daily mood problems and self-blame, both from a within- and between-person perspective. Materials and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Relationship, Victims, Mental Health
Cunha, Flavio; Hu, Qinyou; Xia, Yiming; Zhao, Naibao – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
According to UNESCO, one-third of the world's youths are victims of bullying, which deteriorates academic performance and mental health, and increases suicide ideation and the risk of committing suicide. This paper analyzes a four-month parent-directed intervention designed to foster empathy in middle schoolers in China. Our implementation and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Empathy, Middle School Students
Kostas A. Fanti; Ioannis Mavrommatis; Andraya Whittaker – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
The objective of the study was to examine how distinct psychopathic traits, including callous-unemotional (CU) traits, impulsivity and narcissism, as well as family, school and friend social support are longitudinally associated with cyberbullying and cyber-victimization. Associations were investigated by employing a four-year longitudinal design…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Individual Characteristics, Correlation, Bullying
Damra, Jalal K.; Omari, Omar Al – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of the social networking safety promotion and cyberbullying prevention presentation of the Arizona attorney general's guided by the extended parallel process model (EPPM). A quasi-experimental (a pre-posttest) was used with two groups with random assignment to intervention. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Prevention, Intervention
Van Ryzin, Mark J.; Roseth, Cary J.; Low, Sabina; Loan, Christopher M. – Journal of School Violence, 2022
Peer victimization represents a pervasive problem, particularly for students in middle school. Although curriculum-based prevention programs have generated small to moderate effects on victimization, these effects tend to weaken beginning with the transition to middle school. In this study, we evaluated cooperative learning (CL) as a mechanism to…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Victims, Middle School Students, Student Behavior
Wang, Cixin; Yao, Jocelyn; Patel, Ami; Li, Beilei – School Psychology International, 2023
Most research on peer victimization has focused on Western samples, but in recent years peer victimization in China has become more prevalent. As a result, limited information is available on how peer victimization, school climate, peer preference, and adjustment difficulties impact Chinese middle school students. This cross-sectional study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Nivetha Prabaharan; Andrew V. Dane; Natalie Spadafora – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2024
This study investigated characteristics associated with two kinds of peer victimization--bullying victimization and adversarial victimization--distinguished by different balances of power between the perpetrator and victim. Specifically, we examined whether bullying victimization (victim has less power than perpetrator) would be experienced to a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Power Structure, Preadolescents
Oliphant, Stephen N. – Youth & Society, 2023
Much of the existing research on adolescent firearm and weapon carrying lacks a theoretical framework. Relatedly, few studies have examined the relationship between weapon carrying and bullying victimization experienced at school, which has been established as a key strain in adolescence. The present study seeks to provide a partial test of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Weapons, Grade 7
Lyndsay N. Jenkins; Sonya Snyder Kaminski; Maritza Miller – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2021
The current study used latent profile analysis to find subgroups of youth based on bullying participant roles and then compared subgroups on the five bystander intervention steps (Notice, Interpret as an emergency, Accept Responsibility, Know how to Intervene, and Act). The sample included 641 fourth-eighth grade students (44.6% boys) who…
Descriptors: Bullying, Intervention, Audiences, Grade 4
Esra Malkoç; Tugba Yanpar Yelken – Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between technology addiction levels and peer bullying levels of students at secondary school and to reveal their views on this topic. The survey model from quantitative research method was used in the research. While the population of the research is composed of all secondary schools in district…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Information Technology, Addictive Behavior, Student Behavior