2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.05.010
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Brief report: The bystander effect in cyberbullying incidents

Abstract: This study examined the bystander effect in cyberbullying. Using self-reported data from 257 Czech respondents who had witnessed a cyberbullying attack, we tested whether provided help decreased with increased number of other bystanders. We controlled for several individual and contextual factors, including empathy, social self-efficacy, empathic response to victimization, and relationship to the victim. Results showed that participants tend to help the victims more in incidents with only one or two other byst… Show more

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“…Social self-efficacy and specifically defender self-efficacy differentiates between defenders and passive bystanders (Gini, Albiero, Benelli, & Altoè, 2008;Machackova, Dedkova, & Mezulanikova, 2015;Pöyhönen, Juvonen, & Salmivalli, 2012;Thornberg et al, 2017;Thornberg & Jungert, 2013). Furthermore, positive outcome expectations such as stopping the bullying or making the victim feel better were positively related to defending and negatively related to reinforcing, whereas passivity was related to conflicting expectations and values (Pöyhönen et al, 2012).…”
Section: Social-cognitive and Affective Correlates Of Bullying And Bymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Social self-efficacy and specifically defender self-efficacy differentiates between defenders and passive bystanders (Gini, Albiero, Benelli, & Altoè, 2008;Machackova, Dedkova, & Mezulanikova, 2015;Pöyhönen, Juvonen, & Salmivalli, 2012;Thornberg et al, 2017;Thornberg & Jungert, 2013). Furthermore, positive outcome expectations such as stopping the bullying or making the victim feel better were positively related to defending and negatively related to reinforcing, whereas passivity was related to conflicting expectations and values (Pöyhönen et al, 2012).…”
Section: Social-cognitive and Affective Correlates Of Bullying And Bymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They also had greater empathy and were more likely to have been a victim of cyberbullying. Controlling for empathy and relationship to the victim, a study on Czech students noted that participants helped victims when the incidents involved only one or two other bystanders [53]. In one of the only longitudinal studies, 670 Canadian students began the study at grades 4, 7 or 10 and were followed for three years [54].…”
Section: Bystandersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As opposed to traditional bullying, cyberbullying invades the individual's life in unprecedented ways, as it is not limited by time and space and can have unlimited audience with an astronomical bystander effect [15,16,18].…”
Section: Bullying Vs Cyberbullyingmentioning
confidence: 99%