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Moral disengagement and verbal bullying in early adolescence: A three-year longitudinal study
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education, Teaching and Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5753-1310
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education, Teaching and Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9233-3862
Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, The Division of Statistics and Machine Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6590-3847
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Italy.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8251-7550
2021 (English)In: Journal of School Psychology, ISSN 0022-4405, E-ISSN 1873-3506, Vol. 84, p. 63-73Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This three-year longitudinal study examined both within- and between-person effects of moral disengagement on verbal bullying perpetration in early adolescence. Data came from the first four waves (T1–T4, Grades 4 to 7) of an ongoing longitudinal project examining social and moral correlates of bullying in Swedish schools. Participants included 2432 Swedish early adolescents (52% girls; Mage at T1 = 10.55 years). Students completed self-report measures of verbal bullying perpetration and moral disengagement. Results of a multilevel growth model showed that verbal bullying increased over time (regression coefficient for Grade was b = 0.04, SE = 0.01, p < .001). Additionally, the verbal bullying trajectories of participants with higher average levels of MD were higher (regression coefficient for MD¯ was b = 0.28, SE = 0.02, p < .001) and steeper (regression coefficient for the Grade ×MD¯ interaction was b = 0.02, SE = 0.01, p = .018), indicating that these students scored higher on verbal bullying in general and increased more in verbal bullying over time, compared to students with lower levels of average MD. Variations around one's own mean of MD over time was also significantly associated with concurrent changes in verbal bullying (regression coefficient for time-varying MD was b = 0.21, SE = 0.01, p < .001).

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Elsevier, 2021. Vol. 84, p. 63-73
Keywords [en]
Verbal bullying, Moral disengagement, Early adolescence, Longitudinal, MLGM
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Educational Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-172587DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2020.08.006ISI: 000617887100005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85099131302OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-172587DiVA, id: diva2:1517784
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Funding: Swedish Research CouncilSwedish Research CouncilEuropean Commission [D0775301]

Available from: 2021-01-14 Created: 2021-01-14 Last updated: 2021-12-10Bibliographically approved
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1. The association between moral disengagement and bullying in early adolescence
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2021 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

School bullying occurs when a student is repeatedly exposed to negative actions by other students. The victim is often at some form of a disadvantage. Bullying can take many forms, such as physical, verbal, and relational. It can also occur online. With social cognitive theory as a theoretical framework, this dissertation examined some of the (individual and collective) moral processes that underlie bullying. More specifically, the aim was to enhance the understanding of the association between moral disengagement (MD) and bullying in early adolescence. Self-reported survey data was collected and analyzed using various statistical methods, such as multivariate regression and multilevel analysis. The results show that MD (individual and collective) is associated with bullying perpetration, both in a school context and online. The results also show that individual MD varies over time, and that changes are related to changes in bullying perpetration. The results also indicate that the mechanisms of MD are differentially associated with different forms of bullying. For instance, diffusion of responsibility is (positively) associated with assisting and reinforcing bullying, while moral justification is (positively) associated with indirect bullying. Overall, the results point to the importance of taking into account and analyzing both individual and contextual factors when examining the role that moral disengagement plays in bullying.

Abstract [sv]

Skolmobbning är när en elev upprepade gånger blir utsatt för negativa handlingar av andra elever. Den som utsätts är ofta i någon form av underläge. Det kan handla om att bli retad, utesluten eller slagen. Mobbning kan också ske på nätet. Med utgångpunkt i den socialkognitiva teorin studerades i den här avhandlingen några av de (individuella och kollektiva) moraliska processer som är involverade i skolmobbning. Mer specifikt var syftet att öka kunskapen om hur moraliskt disengagemang (MD) hänger samman med mobbning bland elever i åldrarna 10–14 år. Självrapporterad enkätdata samlades in och analyserades med hjälp av olika statistiska metoder, så som multivariat regression och flernivåanalys. Resultaten visar att individuellt och kollektivt MD hänger samman med att utsätta andra, både i en skolkontext och på nätet. Resultaten visar också att MD (individnivå) varierar över tid och att dessa förändringar sammanhänger med förändringar i att utsätta andra. Resultaten pekar också på att de olika mekanismerna av MD delvis sammanhänger med olika former av mobbning. Exempelvis sammanhängde ansvarsdiffusion (positivt) med att assistera och förstärka i mobbningssituationer, medan moraliskt rättfärdigande sammanhängde (positivt) med indirekt mobbning. Sammantaget pekar resultaten på betydelsen av att ta hänsyn till och analysera såväl individuella som sociala och kontextuella faktorer när man studerar mobbning.  

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2021. p. 96
Series
Linköping Studies in Behavioural Science, ISSN 1654-2029 ; 236
Keywords
Bullying, Moral disengagement, Social cognitive theory, Mobbning, Moraliskt disengagemang, Socialkognitiv teori
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Pedagogy
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urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-181739 (URN)10.3384/9789179291280 (DOI)9789179291273 (ISBN)9789179291280 (ISBN)
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2022-01-21, BL32, B-building, Campus Valla, Linköping, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2021-12-10 Created: 2021-12-10 Last updated: 2022-01-11Bibliographically approved

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