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- Title
The association between adolescents' beliefs in a just world and their attitudes to victims of bullying.
- Authors
Fox, Claire L; Elder, Tracey; Gater, Josephine; Johnson, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Research which has investigated children's attitudes to bullying has found that the majority of children display anti-bullying attitudes. However, a small minority of children do appear to admire the bully and lack sympathy for victims of bullying. The just world belief theory has received a great deal of attention in recent years with evidence emerging in support of a two-dimensional model distinguishing between beliefs in a just world (BJW) for self and BJW for others. BJW-self (and not BJW-others) has been found to uniquely predict psychological well-being, whereas BJW-others (and not BJW-self) uniquely predicts harsh social attitudes and derogation of victims.
- Publication
The British journal of educational psychology, 2010, Vol 80, Issue Pt 2, p183
- ISSN
0007-0998
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1348/000709909X479105