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The Effectiveness of Moral Disengagement and Social Norms as Anti-Bullying Components: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Source :
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Child Development . Nov-Dec 2022 93(6):1873-1888. - 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 ([beta] = -0.46), which, in turn, reduced both bullying ([beta] = 0.33) and outsider behaviors ([beta] = 0.20), and increased defending ([beta] = -0.10). Intervening on social norms decreased bullying ([beta] = -0.18), 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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0009-3920 and 1467-8624
- Volume :
- 93
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Child Development
- Notes :
- https://osf.io/w5hd7/?view_only=693d6d86743d4c49980a7768ce1e555b
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1354242
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13828