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The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti-bullying components: A randomized controlled trial.
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Child development [Child Dev] 2022 Nov; Vol. 93 (6), pp. 1873-1888. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 25. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This three-armed randomized controlled trial examined how moral disengagement and social norms account for change in bullying behavior and their potential as targets of anti-bullying components within separate interventions among 1200 French-speaking Belgian elementary students (48% boys, 9-12 year-olds, 57 classes, nine schools) during 2018-2019 (no ethnicity data available). Mediation analysis revealed that students' moral disengagement successfully decreased (β = -.46), which, in turn, reduced both bullying (β = .33) and outsider behaviors (β = .20), and increased defending (β = -.10). Intervening on social norms decreased bullying (β = -.18), but not through the perceived injunctive class norm as intended. Guidelines to open the "black box" of anti-bullying programs and determine the cost-effectiveness ratio of their components are provided.<br /> (© 2022 The Authors. Child Development © 2022 Society for Research in Child Development.)
- Subjects :
- Male
Child
Humans
Female
Peer Group
Morals
Students
Schools
Social Norms
Bullying
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1467-8624
- Volume :
- 93
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Child development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 35876243
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13828