The authors employed Latane and Darley's model about bystanders' behavior to explain children's active defending and passive bystanding behavior in school bullying. The three central steps of the model were operationalized by measuring provictim attitudes, personal responsibility for intervention, and coping strategies. Moreover, the role of…

This paper discusses the extent, distribution, and consequences of socially isolated mothers. First, the author considers what are likely to be the negative effects of isolation on both the emotional and physical health of mothers, and the resulting implications of these effects for the primary prevention of a wide range of emotional and physical…