Title |
Getting angry matters: Going beyond perspective taking and empathic concern to understand bystanders' behavior in bullying
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Published in |
Journal of Adolescence, September 2017
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DOI | 10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.09.011 |
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Authors |
Tiziana Pozzoli, Gianluca Gini, Robert Thornberg |
Abstract |
The present study examined the relations between different empathic dimensions and bystanders' behavior in bullying. Specifically, the indirect effects of empathic concern and perspective taking via empathic anger on defending and passive bystanding were tested in a sample of Italian young adolescents (N = 398; Mage = 12 years, 3 months, 47.2% girls). Path analysis confirmed the direct and indirect effects, via empathic anger, of empathic concern and perspective taking on bystanders' behavior, with the exception of the direct association between perspective taking and passive bystanding that was not significant. Our findings suggest that considering empathic anger together with empathic concern and perspective taking could help researchers to better understand the links between empathic dispositions and bystanders' behavior in bullying. |
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