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| Title |
School bullying and the mechanisms of moral disengagement
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Aggressive Behavior, October 2013
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| DOI | 10.1002/ab.21509 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Robert Thornberg, Tomas Jungert |
| Abstract |
The aim of the present study was to examine to what degree different mechanisms of moral disengagement were related to age, gender, bullying, and defending among school children. Three hundred and seventy-two Swedish children ranging in age from 10 to 14 years completed a questionnaire. Findings revealed that boys expressed significantly higher levels of moral justification, euphemistic labeling, diffusion of responsibility, distorting consequences, and victim attribution, as compared with girls. Whereas boys bullied others significantly more often than girls, age was unrelated to bullying. Moral justification and victim attribution were the only dimensions of moral disengagement that significantly related to bullying. Furthermore, younger children and girls were more likely to defend victims. Diffusion of responsibility and victim attribution were significantly and negatively related to defending, while the other dimensions of moral disengagement were unrelated to defending. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
| Georgia | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 192 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 189 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 34 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 9% |
| Researcher | 15 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 38 | 20% |
| Unknown | 45 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 88 | 46% |
| Social Sciences | 30 | 16% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 2% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 15 | 8% |
| Unknown | 48 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 25 January 2016.
All research outputs
#5,174,528
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Outputs from Aggressive Behavior
#283
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#45,741
of 218,517 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Aggressive Behavior
#2
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