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- Title
The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti-bullying components: A randomized controlled trial.
- Authors
Tolmatcheff, Chloé; Galand, Benoit; Roskam, Isabelle; Veenstra, René
- Abstract
This three-armed randomized controlled trial examined how moral disengagement and social norms account for change in bullying behavior and their potential as targets of anti-bullying components within separate interventions among 1200 French-speaking Belgian elementary students (48% boys, 9-12 year-olds, 57 classes, nine schools) during 2018-2019 (no ethnicity data available). Mediation analysis revealed that students' moral disengagement successfully decreased (β = -.46), which, in turn, reduced both bullying (β = .33) and outsider behaviors (β = .20), and increased defending (β = -.10). Intervening on social norms decreased bullying (β = -.18), but not through the perceived injunctive class norm as intended. Guidelines to open the "black box" of anti-bullying programs and determine the cost-effectiveness ratio of their components are provided.
- Subjects
ANTI-bullying movements; SOCIAL norms; MORAL disengagement; SCHOOL children; SCHOOL bullying; EVALUATION research; RESEARCH funding; AFFINITY groups; SCHOOLS; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; STUDENTS; ETHICS; BULLYING; RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Child Development, 2022, Vol 93, Issue 6, p1873
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.13828