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Direct linkRobert Thornberg; Björn Sjögren; Gianluca Gini; Tiziana Pozzoli – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
The overall objective of this study was to investigate the longitudinal association between diffusion of responsibility and pro-aggressive bystander behavior across three time points in upper elementary education. This three-wave longitudinal study included 1905 Swedish students who completed a questionnaire in at least one of the three waves: the…
Descriptors: Aggression, Responsibility, Audiences, Elementary School Students
Kozina, Ana; Marušic, Iris; Oskarsson, Magnus; Veldin, Manja; Vidmar, Maša; Mlekuž, Ana; Štremfel, Urška; Vršnik Perše, Tina – Educational Studies, 2022
Aggressive behaviour has negative consequences for students who are exposed to it and those who are aggressive. In addition to a number of negative consequences at the individual level aggression negatively impacts processes within the school. Successful methods of preventing and reducing aggressive behaviour at school often include activities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Aggression, Empathy
Robert Thornberg; Björn Sjögren; Peter Ekberg; Sandra Englund; Trine Öhman; Björn Robbins – Educational Psychology, 2023
This study examined whether individual and collective moral disengagement (MD) in seventh grade were associated with bullying perpetration across seventh and eighth grade, and whether changes in individual and collective MD from seventh to eighth grade were associated with concomitant changes in individual-level bullying perpetration. In this…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 7, Grade 8, Student Behavior
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
Johansson, Stefan; Englund, Göran – Educational Psychology, 2021
The article focuses on the contentious relation between cyberbullying and physical, verbal, and relational bullying. Drawing on items from the Olweus questionnaire, the study used confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling, and latent factors of bullying were fitted to the data. Different background variables were related to…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Verbal Communication, Aggression
Björne, Petra; Deveau, Roy; Nylander, Lena – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2021
Background: It is mandatory for staff in Swedish community services for people with intellectual disabilities to report incidents of error or malpractice. Aim The aim is to study if incident reports contribute to developing quality in services for people with intellectual disabilities who present with challenging behaviours. Method: 159 reports on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Reports, Disclosure
Bjärehed, Marlene; Thornberg, Robert; Wänström, Linda; Gini, Gianluca – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
This study examined the links between seven specific mechanisms of moral disengagement and indirect bullying, direct bullying, and pro-aggressive bystander behavior. In addition, the moderating role of gender on these associations was examined. Participants were 317 Swedish students in Grades 4 to 8 (X-bar[subscript age]=12.6, SD = 1.35; 62%…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Gender Differences, Bullying, Aggression
Katsantonis, Ioannis G. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: The prevalence rates of bullying vary significantly across countries and continents. Specifically, UNESCO estimates that the prevalence rates vary from 22.8% (CentralAmerica) to 48.2% (Sub-Saharan Africa). Recently these differences among countries andregions have been attributed to culture- and country-level variables. Thus, the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Aggression, Student Behavior, Comparative Analysis
Alexius, Katarina – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2020
In this qualitative study of text documents, 23 cases reported to the Swedish Schools Inspectorate are analysed through a theory of the ideal crime victim. The results show that expectations of the victim's passivity are the same for the ideal victim of aggression in Swedish schools as for the ideal crime victim. Legitimacy as a victim in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aggression, Victims, Bullying
Skoog, Therése; Kapetanovic, Sabina – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
We used latent growth curve analysis to extend research on associations between early puberty and adverse peer relations by examining the role of pubertal timing in the developmental trajectories of peer victimization and offending from early- to mid-adolescence. We made use of three-wave longitudinal data collected annually from a cohort of…
Descriptors: Puberty, Bullying, Victims, Adolescent Development
Lindqvist, Henrik; Thornberg, Robert; Colnerud, Gunnel – Teaching Education, 2021
Teacher education involves encountering ethical dilemmas connected to teaching. Student teachers' ethical dilemmas sometimes occur when ideals clash with experiences. The current study focuses on the challenges experienced by student teachers during work placement education. The aim of the study was to investigate ethical dilemmas student teachers…
Descriptors: Ethics, Placement, Teacher Education Programs, Barriers
Odenbring, Ylva; Johansson, Thomas; Hammarén, Nils; Lunneblad, Johannes – Urban Education, 2019
The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who have been exposed to different forms of violent or abusive acts in school. The study will shed light on how categorizations and forms of explanation used in the schools by professionals emerge from central institutional and professional discourses. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims, Violence, Aggression
Kim R. Sylwander – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2019
In this study, I will introduce the concept of affective atmospheres previously developed by Anderson (Emot Space Soc 2:77-81, 2009) and Anderson and Ash (2015), to explore young social media users' articulated experiences of aggressive behaviour on a popular social networking site in Sweden. This concept opens up for inquiring into bullying, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Social Media, Aggression
Download full textLjusberg, Anna-Lena – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2018
This article is based on data from a two-year ethnographic study on children in school-age child-care in Sweden. It describes a boy's way from positioning himself as a "boy who does not fight" to a "boy who fights". In Sweden, independence is viewed as paramount. Fostering children to independence can be seen from different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Social Development, Social Influences
Hammarén, Nils; Lunneblad, Johannes; Johansson, Thomas; Odenbring, Ylva – Power and Education, 2015
There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspective when addressing questions of how to handle and preserve social order in Swedish schools. As an institution that has focused on social order and education since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has also become an institution that focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Educational Policy, Bullying
