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Veenstra, René; Lodder, Gerine M. A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
This article focuses on the link between social norms and behavioral development as presented in research on norms regarding bullying and aggression. The aim is to present a conceptual framework for how classroom norms may explain children's decisions to defend others or refrain from defending. Norms emerge from group consensus about what is…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Social Behavior, Student Behavior, Classroom Environment
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Claire F. Garandeau; Tiina Turunen; Jessica Trach; Christina Salmivalli – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
This study examined whether, for bullying perpetrators, admitting to their behavior was associated with specific psychosocial characteristics, and whether it predicted decreases in bullying behavior and a higher responsiveness to a successful anti-bullying program after 9 months of implementation. It also investigated whether participation in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bullying, Restorative Practices
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Shin, Huiyoung – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
The current study examined whether youth's perceived bullying norms play a role in friendship dynamics related to bullying and victimization among the fifth and sixth grade (N = 736, 52% girls at Wave 1, N = 677, 52% girls at Wave 2) in elementary schools. Youth completed peer nominations (friendship, bullying, and victimization) and a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Friendship, Grade 6
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Stattin, Håkan; Svensson, Ylva; Korol, Liliia – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
In Sweden, as in many other European countries, poor neighborhoods with ethnically diverse inhabitants and high crime rates have grown up around big cities in the last decades. We hypothesized that, compared with adolescents in advantaged neighborhoods, adolescents in disadvantaged neighborhoods would perceive their schools as relatively safe, due…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Neighborhoods, Cultural Pluralism, Comparative Analysis
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Pabian, Sara; Vandebosch, Heidi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
The purpose of this study was to test bidirectional relationships between (cyber)bullying and (a) bonding to school and (b) bonding to teachers. These relationships were examined while controlling for traditional and cyberbullying victimization, as well as gender and age. The sample consisted of 2,128 Belgian early adolescents, who participated in…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Student School Relationship
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Roland, Erling – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The first Norwegian Manifesto (Manifesto-I) Against Bullying was launched by the Prime Minister in autumn 2002 and lasted for 2 years. A background for Manifesto-I was that school bullying had increased almost linearly in Norway with over 60% more victims and bullies since 1995. During the manifest period, the percentage of victims and bullies…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Victims
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Cross, Donna; Epstein, Melanie; Hearn, Lydia; Slee, Phillip; Shaw, Therese; Monks, Helen – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
In 2003 Australia was one of the first countries to develop an integrated national policy, called the National Safe Schools Framework (NSSF), for the prevention and management of violence, bullying, and other aggressive behaviors. The effectiveness of this framework has not yet been formally evaluated. Cross-sectional data collected in 2007 from…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Barriers, School Safety
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Li, Yibing; Lynch, Alicia Doyle; Kalvin, Carla; Liu, Jianjun; Lerner, Richard M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
Using data from 1,676 youth who participated in three waves (Grades 6 to 8) of the longitudinal, 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, we tested two series of hierarchal linear models to examine the role of peer support, associating with "problem-behaving" friends, and bullying involvement in the development of behavioral and emotional school…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Early Adolescents, Peer Relationship, Learner Engagement
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Lee, Eunju – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
With 338 fifth-grade students as subjects, this study found the variations in the relation between school bullying and social preference as a function of gender and types of aggressive behavior utilized. Aggressive boys were likely to be rejected by peers, whereas aggressive girls were both rejected and accepted by peers. Children nominated…
Descriptors: Bullying, Aggression, Females, Grade 5
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Vaillancourt, Tracy; McDougall, Patricia; Hymel, Shelley; Krygsman, Amanda; Miller, Jessie; Stiver, Kelley; Davis, Clinton – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Given the rapid increase in studies of bullying and peer harassment among youth, it becomes important to understand just what is being researched. This study explored whether the themes that emerged from "children's" definitions of bullying were consistent with theoretical and methodological operationalizations within the research…
Descriptors: Bullying, Aggression, Definitions, Sexual Harassment