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- Title
Bystanders' Behaviors Moderate the Effects of Risk Factors on Victimization.
- Authors
Kärnä, Antti; Voeten, Marinus; Poskiparta, Elisa; Salmivalli, Christina
- Abstract
We examined whether the bystanders' behaviors in bullying situations influence vulnerable students' risk for victimization. The sample consisted of 6,980 primary school children from Grades 3-5, who were nested within 378 classrooms in 77 schools. These students filled out Internet-based questionnaires in their schools' computer labs. The results from multilevel models indicated that the associations between victimization and its two risk factors-social anxiety and peer rejection-were strongest in classrooms that were high in reinforcing bullying and low in defending the victims. This suggests that bystanders' behaviors in bullying situations moderate the effects of individual and interpersonal risk factors for victimization. Influencing these behaviors might be an effective way to protect vulnerable children from victimization.
- Subjects
BULLYING; HUMAN behavior; HUMAN biology; CRIME victims; AGGRESSION (Psychology); SCHOOL violence; PSYCHOLOGY of school children; PEERS; REJECTION (Psychology)
- Publication
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010, Vol 56, Issue 3, p261
- ISSN
0272-930X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mpq.0.0052