TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti-bullying components: a randomized controlled trial
JO  - Child development
A1  - Tolmatcheff, Chloé
A1  - Galand, Benoit
A1  - Roskam, Isabelle
A1  - Veenstra, René
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This three-armed randomized controlled trial examined how moral disengagement and social norms account for change in bullying behavior and their potential as targets of anti-bullying components within separate interventions among 1200 French-speaking Belgian elementary students (48% boys, 9-12 year-olds, 57 classes, nine schools) during 2018-2019 (no ethnicity data available). Mediation analysis revealed that students' moral disengagement successfully decreased (β = -.46), which, in turn, reduced both bullying (β = .33) and outsider behaviors (β = .20), and increased defending (β = -.10). Intervening on social norms decreased bullying (β = -.18), but not through the perceived injunctive class norm as intended. Guidelines to open the "black box" of anti-bullying programs and determine the cost-effectiveness ratio of their components are provided.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-3920
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13828
ID  - ref1
ER  -