Aggressive Attitudes and Prevalence of Bullying Bystander Behavior in Middle School

Autor/inn/en	Datta, Pooja; Cornell, Dewey; Huang, Francis
Titel	Aggressive Attitudes and Prevalence of Bullying Bystander Behavior in Middle School
Quelle	In: Psychology in the Schools, 53 (2016) 8, S.804-816 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-3085
DOI	10.1002/pits.21944
Schlagwörter	Middle School Students; Aggression; Bullying; Student Attitudes; Audiences; Hypothesis Testing; Student Behavior; Student Surveys; Educational Environment; Attitude Measures; Classification; Reinforcement; Prevention; Intervention; Regression (Statistics) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Mobbing; Schülerverhalten; Spectator; Zuschauer; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Student behaviour; Schülerbefragung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Positive Verstärkung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Separate lines of research find that proaggressive attitudes promote peer aggression and that bystanders play a pivotal role in deterring or facilitating bullying behavior. The current study hypothesized that proaggressive attitudes in middle school would deter students from standing up to bullying and encourage them to reinforce bullying behavior. Middle school students (n = 28,765) in 423 schools completed a statewide school climate survey that included an aggressive attitudes scale and their bystander response to a recent episode of bullying, which was categorized as upstanding, reinforcing, or passive. Multilevel logistic regressions indicated that higher aggressive attitudes were associated with less upstanding behavior at the school level and less upstanding behavior and more reinforcing behavior at the individual level, while controlling for other school and student demographic variables. These findings suggest that antibullying programs might address student attitudes toward aggression as a means of boosting positive bystander intervention. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01