Collective moral disengagement and its associations with bullying perpetration and victimization in studentsShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Educational Psychology, ISSN 0144-3410, E-ISSN 1469-5820, Vol. 41, no 8, p. 952-966Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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, the bivariate correlation analyses at the classroom level showed that students who belonged to classrooms with lower collective moral disengagement were less likely to be victimised by bullying or engaged in bullying perpetration. Moreover, when controlling for gender and age at the individual level and including collective moral disengagement in the same model at the classroom level, multilevel analyses revealed that students who belonged to classrooms with a higher level of collective moral disengagement were more likely to be engaged in bullying perpetration or to be targets of bullying victimisation.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD , 2021. Vol. 41, no 8, p. 952-966
Keywords [en]
Bullying; victimisation; collective moral disengagement; group norms
National Category
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-173692DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2020.1843005ISI: 000618298300001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-173692DiVA, id: diva2:1532806
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