Unique and Interactive Effects of Moral Emotions and Moral Disengagement on Bullying and Defending among School Children

The first aim of the present study was to examine in a single model how moral disengagement and moral emotions were related to bullying and defending behavior among schoolchildren. The second aim was to test whether the two moral dimensions interacted with each other to explain behavior in bullying...

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Published in:The Elementary school journal 2015-12, Vol.116 (2), p.322-337
Main Authors: Thornberg, Robert, Pozzoli, Tiziana, Gini, Gianluca, Jungert, Tomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aggression
Banduras
Bullying
bystander
Child Behavior
Cognition
Correlation
Data collection
defender
defending
Effects
Elementary School Students
Emotion
Emotional expression
Emotional Response
Empathy
empati
Foreign Countries
försvara
Grade 5
Grade 6
Guilt
Human aggression
mobbning
moral
moral development
moral disengagement
moral emotion
Moral Values
moralisk utveckling
moraliska emotioner
moraliska känslor
moraliskt disengagemang
Morality
Path Analysis
prosocial
prosocial behavior
Psychology
Psykologi
Questionnaires
Samhällsvetenskap
skuld
Social Sciences
Statistical Analysis
Student behavior
Sweden
Sympathy
sympati
vittne
åskådare
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Summary:The first aim of the present study was to examine in a single model how moral disengagement and moral emotions were related to bullying and defending behavior among schoolchildren. The second aim was to test whether the two moral dimensions interacted with each other to explain behavior in bullying situations. Data were collected from 561 Swedish students. Moral disengagement was positively associated with bullying and negatively associated with defending, whereas moral emotions score was negatively associated with bullying and positively associated with defending. Moreover, students who scored high in moral emotions did not tend to bully other students, irrespective of their levels of moral disengagement, whereas when the moral emotions score was low bullying behavior increased with increasing levels of moral disengagement. In contrast, moral disengagement was negatively related to defending behavior at low levels of moral emotions, but not when moral emotions were high.
ISSN:0013-5984
1554-8279
1554-8279
DOI:10.1086/683985