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Early adolescents' motivations to defend victims in school bullying and their perceptions of student–teacher relationships: A self‐determination theory approach

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Adolescence, September 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Early adolescents' motivations to defend victims in school bullying and their perceptions of student–teacher relationships: A self‐determination theory approach
Published in
Journal of Adolescence, September 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.09.001
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Authors

Tomas Jungert, Barbara Piroddi, Robert Thornberg

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate whether various dimensions of student-teacher relationships were associated with different types of motivation to defend victims in bullying and to determine the association between these types of motivations and various bystander behaviors in bullying situations among early adolescents in Italy. Data were collected from 405 Italian adolescents who completed a survey in their classroom. Results showed that warm student-teacher relationships were positively associated with defending victims and with autonomous motivation to defend victims. In contrast, conflictual student-teacher relationships were positively associated with passive bystanding and with extrinsic motivation to defend victims. Different forms of motivation to defend were found to be mediators between student-teacher relationship qualities and bystander behaviors in school bullying. Our findings suggest that teachers should build warm and caring student-teacher relationships to enhance students' autonomous motivation to defend victims of bullying as well as their inclination to defend the victims in practice.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 201 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 34 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 11%
Student > Bachelor 22 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 8%
Lecturer 14 7%
Other 35 17%
Unknown 58 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 69 34%
Social Sciences 26 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 4%
Arts and Humanities 6 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 2%
Other 25 12%
Unknown 63 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2018.
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#1,180,530
of 22,889,074 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Adolescence
#125
of 1,387 outputs
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#23,253
of 320,132 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Adolescence
#3
of 30 outputs
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