Citation

Norwalk KE, Hamm JV, Farmer TW, Barnes K. J. Early Adolesc. 2016; 36(7): 989-1009.

Affiliation

Virginia Commonwealth University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0272431615590230

PMID

28042195

Abstract

The present study examined the effects of teacher attunement to victimization on student perceptions of the bullying culture of their schools as a means of fostering a sense of belonging among early adolescents. Participants (n = 1,264) in sixth grade reported on the frequency that they had been bullied, and teachers were asked to report students who were "picked on." Teacher attunement represented the correspondence between self-identified and teacher-identified victims. Attunement at the beginning of the school year was related to positive changes in student reports that their peers would intervene in bullying; in turn, sense of belonging was greater when students perceived that their peers would intervene in bullying. Teacher attunement was indirectly related to greater belonging through its impact on student perceptions of the bullying context.

Language: en