From hate speech to HateLess. The effectiveness of a prevention program on adolescents’ online hate speech involvement

Wachs, Sebastian; Wright, Michelle F.; Gámez-Guadix, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2024.108250

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Online Hate Speech Among Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Recommendations

Wachs,

Mazzone,

Schultze-Krumbholz

et al. 2024

Handbook of Children and Screens

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Online hate speech (OHS) poses a significant threat to young people’s online experiences due to its potential to cause adverse outcomes regarding their mental health and well-being. This brief report provides an overview of recent research investigating OHS, including its prevalence, definitional issues, theoretical frameworks, and correlates and outcomes of OHS involvement. While several definitions of OHS exist, initial attempts to elaborate an evidence-based definition have been made in recent years. However, the distinct aspects of OHS included in existing definitions may be challenging to assess. Regarding OHS assessment, an additional limitation lies in adopting single-item measures, which entails reliability and validity issues. Moreover, previous findings are mainly cross-sectional, limiting our understanding of OHS’s predictors and outcomes. Despite these limitations, the extant literature builds on solid theoretical frameworks while investigating several protective and risk factors, including moral disengagement, self-efficacy, and parental mediation. Nevertheless, much remains to be done in terms of defining OHS based on bottom-up approaches and in terms of translating knowledge into evidence-based prevention. Moving beyond current approaches, future programs are encouraged to prevent OHS through counterspeech while adopting a multicomponent approach. The chapter outlines suggestions for future research directions and recommendations for practitioners working with adolescents.

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Online Hate Speech Among Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Recommendations

Wachs,

Mazzone,

Schultze-Krumbholz

et al. 2024

Handbook of Children and Screens

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The relationship between violent political rhetoric and suicide rates

Nugent,

Lee

2024

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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Associations between teachers’ beliefs and their perception of hate speech in school: a study in Germany and Switzerland

Kansok-Dusche,

Wettstein,

Fischer

et al. 2024

Front. Educ.

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Hate speech is a global issue that is also prevalent among adolescents and requires an educational response. Teachers handle hate speech as part of their professional role. To date, we know little about their beliefs in relation to the early stages of their interventional actions, specifically to their perception of hate speech in school. Thus, this study examined associations between teachers’ social dominance orientation, their pluralist attitude, and their hate speech perception in school. A sample of 471 secondary school teachers from 38 schools (Germany: n = 251; Switzerland: n = 220) participated in a self-report survey from December 2020 to April 2021 (MAge = 42.8 years; 57.7% females; 21.0% with migration status). Data from a total of 3,560 students from grades 7–9 (Germany: n = 1,841; Switzerland: n = 1,719) were matched with teachers’ data to control for students’ hate speech perception in school. Fixed effects multilevel regressions were run, including covariates (teachers’ age, gender, migration status, students’ hate speech perception), teachers’ social dominance orientation, pluralist attitude, and their hate speech perception in school. Teachers perceived a higher frequency of offline hate speech than online hate speech. Contrary to the hypotheses, social dominance orientation was positively associated with offline and online hate speech perception. As predicted, teachers’ pluralist attitude was positively linked to their off- and online hate speech perception. Further research must now clarify how the investigated beliefs and attitudes and teachers’ hate speech perception in school relate to other aspects of their professional competence.

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From hate speech to HateLess. The effectiveness of a prevention program on adolescents’ online hate speech involvement

Cited by 4 publications

References 48 publications

Online Hate Speech Among Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Recommendations

Online Hate Speech Among Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Recommendations

The relationship between violent political rhetoric and suicide rates

Associations between teachers’ beliefs and their perception of hate speech in school: a study in Germany and Switzerland

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