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Camilla Forsberg; Björn Sjögren; Robert Thornberg; Jun Sung Hong; Claudio Longobardi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers have a major impact on students' social cognition and behaviors, and previous research has found that students who have positive relationships with their teachers tend to be less bullied by their peers. However, this line of research is limited in that it has been (a) Dominated by cross-sectional studies and (b) Treated bullying…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Bullying, Victims, Verbal Communication
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Bjärehed, Marlene – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
This short-term longitudinal study examined whether individual moral disengagement and classroom collective moral disengagement were associated with offline and online bullying over the course of 1 year. Multilevel growth modeling with three levels was used to analyze data from a sample of 1048 Swedish students in 68 classrooms. The students…
Descriptors: Bullying, Student Behavior, Computer Mediated Communication, Grade 5
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Strindberg, Joakim – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Despite extensive work to prevent and reduce bullying interactions, bullying is still a prevalent problem in many schools. Children and youth also report that they feel involuntarily left out in school. While research has demonstrated the ways in which school bullying is connected to risk factors across different ecological layers or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bullying, Psychological Patterns
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Thornberg, Robert; Bjereld, Ylva; Caravita, Simona C. – Cogent Education, 2023
Despite the fact that bullying has been consistently linked to moral disengagement among schoolchildren, research that distinguishes among the four loci of moral disengagement (cognitive restructuring, minimizing one's agentive role, distorting consequences, and victim attribution) to better understand bullying is scarce. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Bullying, Gender Differences
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Johansson, Stefan; Englund, Göran – Educational Psychology, 2021
The article focuses on the contentious relation between cyberbullying and physical, verbal, and relational bullying. Drawing on items from the Olweus questionnaire, the study used confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling, and latent factors of bullying were fitted to the data. Different background variables were related to…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Verbal Communication, Aggression
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Thornberg, Robert; Wänström, Linda; Gini, Gianluca; Varjas, Kristen; Meyers, Joel; Elmelid, Rasmus; Johansson, Alexandra; Mellander, Emelie – Educational Psychology, 2021
The aim of the current study was to examine whether collective moral disengagement in the classroom was associated with bullying perpetration and victimisation. One-thousand-and-fifty-four students from 70 classrooms in 29 schools in the middle and southern parts of Sweden completed a questionnaire in their classroom. In line with the hypotheses,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Moral Values, Student Characteristics
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Strindberg, Joakim; Horton, Paul; Thornberg, Robert – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
The article explores 5th and 6th grade pupils' reflections on why pupils may refrain from intervening in bullying, despite understanding that bullying is wrong. The findings are based on focus group interviews conducted with 74 Swedish school pupils, who were asked for their perspectives on the various participant roles depicted in a bullying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Bullying
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Horton, Paul; Forsberg, Camilla – Educational Research, 2020
Background: Research suggests that negative peer interactions that compromise student safety and wellbeing often occur in spaces at school that are not easily visible, not adequately monitored, overcrowded and/or relatively unstructured. In a large online survey conducted in Swedish schools by the anti-bullying organisation, Friends, a small…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, School Safety
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Strindberg, Joakim; Horton, Paul; Thornberg, Robert – Research Papers in Education, 2020
The aim of the study was to examine Swedish school pupils' perspectives on why some pupils engage in bullying, support bullying or avoid standing up for the one(s) being bullied, despite a shared understanding that bullying is wrong. Through the use of focus group interviews combined with two bullying vignettes, a total of 74 pupils from grades 5…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Student Attitudes, Bullying, Victims
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Hellfeldt, Karin; Gill, Peter Edward; Johansson, Björn – Journal of School Violence, 2018
Cross-sectional studies of bullying mask variability in categories of and persistence of bullying victimization. Longitudinal, individual-level data offers a greater insight into schoolchildren's psychosomatic maladjustment as a consequence of bullying. Swedish schoolchildren (n = 3,349), with unique identifiers, in 44 schools (4th-9th grade),…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Victims, Psychosomatic Disorders, Foreign Countries
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Thornberg, Robert; Pozzoli, Tiziana; Gianluca, Gini; Jungert, Tomas – Elementary School Journal, 2015
The first aim of the present study was to examine in a single model how moral disengagement and moral emotions were related to bullying and defending behavior among schoolchildren. The second aim was to test whether the two moral dimensions interacted with each other to explain behavior in bullying situations. Data were collected from 561 Swedish…
Descriptors: Bullying, Child Behavior, Moral Values, Emotional Response
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Forsberg, Camilla; Thornberg, Robert; Samuelsson, Marcus – Research Papers in Education, 2014
The aim with the present study was to investigate bystander actions in bullying situations as well as reasons behind these actions as they are articulated by Swedish students from fourth to seventh grade. Forty-three semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with students. Qualitative analysis of data was performed by methods from…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6