Feeling cybervictims’ pain—The effect of empathy training on cyberbullying
As the world's population increasingly relies on the use of modern technology, cyberbullying becomes an omnipresent risk for children and adolescents and demands counteraction to prevent negative (online) experiences. The classroom‐based German preventive intervention “Medienhelden” (engl.: “Media Heroes”) builds on previous knowledge about links between cognitive empathy, affective empathy, and cyberbullying, among others. For an evaluation study, longitudinal data were available from 722 high school students aged 11–17 years (M = 13.36, SD = 1.00, 51.8% female) before and six months after the implemen...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anja Schultze‐Krumbholz, Martin Schultze, Pavle Zagorscak, Ralf Wölfer, Herbert Scheithauer Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Multi‐level risk factors and developmental assets associated with aggressive behavior in disadvantaged adolescents
The current study examined multilevel risk factors and developmental assets on longitudinal trajectories of aggressive behavior in a diverse sample of rural adolescents. Using ecological and social capital theories, we explored the impact of positive and negative proximal processes, social capital, and contextual characteristics (i.e., school and neighborhood) on adolescent aggression. Data came from the Rural Adaptation Project, which is a 5‐year longitudinal panel study of more than 4,000 middle and high school students from 40 public schools in two rural, low income counties in North Carolina. A three‐level HLM mode...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paul R. Smokowski, Shenyang Guo, Katie L. Cotter, Caroline B. R. Evans, Roderick A. Rose Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Reducing cyberbullying: A theory of reasoned action‐based video prevention program for college students
Few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of cyberbullying prevention/intervention programs. The goals of the present study were to develop a Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA)‐based video program to increase cyberbullying knowledge (1) and empathy toward cyberbullying victims (2), reduce favorable attitudes toward cyberbullying (3), decrease positive injunctive (4) and descriptive norms about cyberbullying (5), and reduce cyberbullying intentions (6) and cyberbullying behavior (7). One hundred sixty‐seven college students were randomly assigned to an online video cyberbullying prevention program or an assessment‐onl...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ashley N. Doane, Michelle L. Kelley, Matthew R. Pearson Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
The impacts of the CONRED Program on different cyberbulling roles
This article presents results from an evaluation of the ConRed cyberbullying intervention program. The program's impacts were separately determined for the different roles within cyberbullying that students can take, i.e., cyber‐victims, cyber‐bullies, cyber‐bully/victims, and bystanders. The ConRed program is a theory‐driven program designed to prevent cyberbullying and improve cyberbullying coping skills. It involves students, teachers, and families. During a 3‐month period, external experts conducted eight training sessions with students, two with teachers and one with families. ConRed was evaluated through a ...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rosario Del Rey, José A. Casas, Rosario Ortega Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Longitudinal impact of the Cyber Friendly Schools program on adolescents’ cyberbullying behavior
Cyberbullying is a major public health problem associated with serious mental, social, and academic consequences for young people. To date, few programs addressing cyberbullying have been developed and empirically tested. The Cyber Friendly Schools (CFS) group‐randomized controlled trial measured the longitudinal impact of a whole‐school online cyberbullying prevention and intervention program, developed in partnership with young people. Non‐government secondary schools in Perth, Western Australia, (n = 35; 3,000+ students) were randomized to an intervention (n = 19) or usual practice control group (n = 1...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Donna Cross, Thérèse Shaw, Kate Hadwen, Patricia Cardoso, Phillip Slee, Clare Roberts, Laura Thomas, Amy Barnes Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Participant roles of bullying in adolescence: Status characteristics, social behavior, and assignment criteria
This study had three goals. First, we examined the prevalence of the participant roles of bullying in middle adolescence and possible gender differences therein. Second, we examined the behavioral and status characteristics associated with the participant roles in middle adolescence. Third, we compared two sets of criteria for assigning students to the participant roles of bullying. Participants were 1,638 adolescents (50.9% boys, Mage = 16.38 years, SD =.80) who completed the shortened participant role questionnaire and peer nominations for peer status and behavioral characteristics. Adolescents were assigned to the...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J. Loes Pouwels, Tessa A. M. Lansu, Antonius H. N. Cillessen Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
“It Was Only Harmless Banter!” The development and preliminary validation of the moral disengagement in sexual harassment scale
This article presents the development and preliminary validation of the Moral Disengagement in Sexual Harassment Scale (MDiSH); a self‐report measure of moral disengagement in the context of hostile work environment harassment. Three studies (total n = 797) document the excellent psychometric properties of this new scale. Male U.K. university students (Study 1: n = 322) and U.S. working males (Studies 2 and 3: n = 475) completed the MDiSH and an array of measures for construct validation. The MDiSH exhibited positive correlations with sexual harassment myth acceptance, male gender identification, and hostile ...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Thomas E. Page, Afroditi Pina, Roger Giner‐Sorolla Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Aggressive delinquency among north American indigenous adolescents: Trajectories and predictors
Aggressive delinquency is a salient social problem for many North American Indigenous (American Indian, Canadian First Nations) communities, and can have deleterious consequences later in life. Yet there is a paucity of research on Indigenous delinquency. Group‐based trajectory modeling is used to prospectively examine trajectories of aggressive delinquency over the course of adolescence using data from 646 Indigenous adolescents from a single culture, spanning the ages of 10–19. Five aggression trajectory groups were identified, characterized by different levels and ages of onset and desistence: non‐offenders (22.1%...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kelley J. Sittner, Dane Hautala Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Tackling psychosocial risk factors for adolescent cyberbullying: Evidence from a school‐based intervention
Cyberbullying is an emerging form of bullying that takes place through contemporary information and communication technologies. Building on past research on the psychosocial risk factors for cyberbullying in this age group, the present study assessed a theory‐driven, school‐based preventive intervention that targeted moral disengagement, empathy and social cognitive predictors of cyberbullying. Adolescents (N = 355) aged between 16 and 18 years were randomly assigned into the intervention and the control group. Both groups completed anonymous structured questionnaires about demographics, empathy, moral disengagemen...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vassilis Barkoukis, Lambros Lazuras, Despoina Ourda, Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Examining explanations for the link between bullying perpetration and physical dating violence perpetration: Do they vary by bullying victimization?
This short‐term longitudinal study examined whether the association between bullying perpetration and later physical dating violence perpetration and mediators of that association (via anger, depression, anxiety, and social status), varied depending on level of bullying victimization. Differences have been noted between those who bully but are not victims of bullying, and those who are both bullies and victims. These differences may influence dating violence risk and the explanations for why bullying leads to dating violence. Data were from dating adolescents in three rural counties who completed self‐administered ques...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vangie A. Foshee, Thad S. Benefield, Heath Luz McNaughton Reyes, Meridith Eastman, Alana M. Vivolo‐Kantor, Kathleen C. Basile, Susan T. Ennett, Robert Faris Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Interpretations of bullying by bullies, victims, and bully‐victims in interactions at different levels of abstraction
This study investigated whether bullies, victims, bully‐victims, and uninvolved children interpreted ambiguous human interactions differently in terms of bullying and whether these interpretations generalized to abstract non‐human interactions. Participants were 390 children (49% girls, Mage = 10.3 years) who completed self‐report measures of bullying and victimization. In addition, they indicated whether video fragments of positive, negative, or ambiguous interactions between humans, animals, and abstract figures depicted bullying situations. Bully‐victims reported more bullying than victims and uninvolved chi...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J. Loes Pouwels, Ron H. J. Scholte, Tirza H. J. van Noorden, Antonius H. N. Cillessen Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Young women's experiences of intrusive behavior in 12 countries
The present study provides international comparisons of young women's (N = 1,734) self‐reported experiences of intrusive activities enacted by men. Undergraduate psychology students from 12 countries (Armenia, Australia, England, Egypt, Finland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, and Trinidad) indicated which of 47 intrusive activities they had personally experienced. Intrusive behavior was not uncommon overall, although large differences were apparent between countries when women's personal experiences of specific intrusive activities were compared. Correlations were carried out between self‐repor...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lorraine Sheridan, Adrian J. Scott, Karl Roberts Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Popularity differentially predicts reactive and proactive aggression in early adolescence
In this study, we examined associations between peer‐perceived popularity, and reactive and proactive aggression using a cross‐sectional and a longitudinal design. Yearly sociometric measures of popularity, and reactive and proactive aggression were gathered from 266 seventh and eight grade adolescents (Mage grade 7 = 12.80, SDage = .40). Popularity was positively correlated with proactive aggression and negatively correlated with reactive aggression, both concurrently as over time. Curvilinear trends indicated that a significant minority of low versus high popular adolescents showed both functions of aggressio...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sabine Stoltz, Antonius H.N. Cillessen, Yvonne H.M. van den Berg, Rob Gommans Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Violent video game players and non‐players differ on facial emotion recognition
We examined whether playing two or more hours of violent video games a day, compared to not playing video games, was associated with a different pattern of recognition of five facial emotions, while controlling for general perceptual and cognitive differences that might also occur. Undergraduate students were categorized as violent video game players (n = 83) or non‐gamers (n = 69) and completed a facial recognition task, consisting of an emotion recognition condition and a control condition of gender recognition. Additionally, participants completed questionnaires assessing their video game and media consumption...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ruth L. Diaz, Ulric Wong, David C. Hodgins, Carina G. Chiu, Vina M. Goghari Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
A price to pay: Turkish and Northern American retaliation for threats to personal and family honor
Two studies investigated retaliatory responses to actual honor threats among members of an honor culture (Turkey) and a dignity culture (northern United States). The honor threat in these studies was based on previous research which has shown that honesty is a key element of the conception of honor and that accusations of dishonesty are threatening to one's honor. In both studies, participants wrote an essay describing the role of honesty in their lives and received feedback on their essay accusing them of being dishonest (vs. neutral feedback). Turkish participants retaliated more strongly than did northern U.S. participa...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - July 30, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ayse K. Uskul, Susan E. Cross, Ceren Günsoy, Berna Gerçek‐Swing, Cansu Alözkan, Bilge Ataca Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
