Drawing on Swedish data (N = 184) from an international vignette study, this study examines teachers’ reported exposure to bias-based bullying as well as their perceptions and intended responses ac...

There are concerns about student teachers starting to develop symptoms of teacher burnout during their teacher education. This makes it important to explore the links between burnout expectancy and...

Changing rooms for physical education are consistently ranked as among the most unsafe places in school. However, the underlying reasons for these perceptions remain insufficiently explored. This s...

The current study explored whether specific mechanisms of moral disengagement predicted bullying perpetration from a sample of upper elementary school students in Sweden. The study hypothesized that both moral justification (portraying harmful actions as serving a noble or socially valuable purpose) and victim attribution (blaming the victims for their own suffering) would be positively associated with subsequent bullying perpetration. Participants, who consisted of 471 students in grades 4–6, completed a web-based questionnaire at two timepoints. Analyses included two linear regression analyses—one with indirect bullying and one with direct bullying. Results indicated that moral justification significantly predicted bullying. The victim attribution predicted higher levels of indirect bullying and was significantly associated with bullying among girls. The findings suggest that assessing students’ morals and identifying and intervening in disengagement patterns might potentially be avenues practitioners need to consider. Also, programs need to consider gender differences and specifically target victim-blaming attitudes.

This Frontiers Research Topic explores several dimensions of this definition with a special emphasis on: a) the changing digital and cultural contexts for ag...

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Introduction Adolescents are increasingly exposed to hate speech in both online and offline contexts, yet limited research has examined how such exposure is experienced and how it relates to adolesc.....

The changing room for physical education (PE) is a distinctive space, markedly different from all other spaces within a school. While students are required to use the changing room during PE, previ...

The current study aimed to investigate whether negative student–teacher relationships and within-class perceptions of the class climate at the individual level, and positive class climates at the cla....

Journal of Youth and Adolescence - Parents and friends are critical social influences on adolescents’ academic achievement, yet how they function together within dynamic friendship networks...

The current study examines sexual identity differences in the relationship between bullying victimization and risky sexual behaviors. Data for the study were derived from the 2023 dataset from the ...

While the connection between schooling and spatial factors has been emphasised in studies of bullying, few investigations have explored how these factors contribute to the marginalisation and bully...

Declining school performance has fueled public debate in Sweden, with a particular focus on students with migration backgrounds, who are often perceived as underachievers in the Swedish educational...

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether moral disengagement and defender self-efficacy were related to defending, unconcerned bystanding, and guilty bystanding in school bullying among...

The World Anti-Bullying Forum (WABF) is proud to announce that its next global gathering will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 9–11, 2027, hosted by the Faculty of Psychology at the University o...

The current study aimed to investigate whether negative student–teacher relationships and within-class perceptions of the class climate at the individual level, and positive class climates at the cla....

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A positive school climate is both pivotal for opposing bullying and other degrading treatment and dependent upon a whole-school approach. Although a growing body of research emphasises the importan...

While research on how classroom climate impacts students’ bullying behavior has increased over past decades, studies on how a well-functioning class climate may impact the classroom prevalence of vict...

The current study explores whether expressing feelings about violence through journal or notebook and/or school assignment might be associated with a decrease in delinquent activities, such as substan...

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The aim of this study was to examine whether schadenfreude and moral disengagement at the individual level, and class moral disengagement at the classroom level, are associated with bullying perpet...

Self-reported measures of school bullying can be divided into two subtypes. Definition-based measures present a bullying definition followed by one question abo...

Previous research has found that students with special educational needs (SEN) are at increased risk of involvement in school bullying, that they tend to have fewer friends than non-SEN peers, and ...

This study aimed to investigate (a) the relationships between the three dimensions of dark triad personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy), moral disengagement, and cyberbu...

School-based bullying is a widespread issue, but it occurs less often when bystanders defend the victims. This study examined whether type of bullying and students’ trust in their teacher’s ability...

The overall objective of this study was to examine the links between teacher–student relationship quality and student engagement, delimited to affective and behavioural engagement. We used a sequen...

The aim of this study is to explore pupils’ perspectives on school climate, with a focus on help-seeking from teachers when experiencing unsafe incidents. Fifty-nine focus group interviews were con...

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While the connection between schooling and spatial factors has been emphasised in studies of bullying, few investigations have explored how these factors contribute to the marginalisation and bully...