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Normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of Israeli and U.S. youth
We examined how normative beliefs about cyberbullying influenced the choice of electronic aggression in hypothetical peer-to-peer scenarios. Data was collected from 1097 Israeli and 1196 U.S. students in grades 5(th)-10(th), who completed self-report surveys examining normative beliefs about cyberbu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6928304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31890969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e03048 |
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author | Peled, Yehuda Medvin, Mandy B. Pieterse, Efrat Domanski, Linda |
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description | We examined how normative beliefs about cyberbullying influenced the choice of electronic aggression in hypothetical peer-to-peer scenarios. Data was collected from 1097 Israeli and 1196 U.S. students in grades 5(th)-10(th), who completed self-report surveys examining normative beliefs about cyberbullying, aggressive cyberstrategies, face-to-face verbal and relational aggression, and access to electronic devices. Israeli students had higher levels of all aggression measures than U.S. students, but access to electronic devices was similar across the two countries. Normative beliefs about cyberbullying were positively associated with verbal and relational aggression. In Israeli, normative beliefs in boys were higher than girls in 5(th) and 6(th) grade, similar in 7(th) and 8(th) grade, and then higher again in 9(th) and 10(th) grade. In the U.S., boys had higher normative beliefs about cyberbullying than girls, and older students had higher beliefs than younger students. Findings using logistic regression indicated that normative beliefs about cyberbullying were predictive of Cyber-aggression even when taking into account grade, country, gender, access to electronic devices, and face-to-face relational aggression. Cyber-aggressive strategies were more likely to be present at the highest level of normative beliefs. Ways to change student beliefs using a social cognitive perspective are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-69283042019-12-30 Normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of Israeli and U.S. youth Peled, Yehuda Medvin, Mandy B. Pieterse, Efrat Domanski, Linda Heliyon Article We examined how normative beliefs about cyberbullying influenced the choice of electronic aggression in hypothetical peer-to-peer scenarios. Data was collected from 1097 Israeli and 1196 U.S. students in grades 5(th)-10(th), who completed self-report surveys examining normative beliefs about cyberbullying, aggressive cyberstrategies, face-to-face verbal and relational aggression, and access to electronic devices. Israeli students had higher levels of all aggression measures than U.S. students, but access to electronic devices was similar across the two countries. Normative beliefs about cyberbullying were positively associated with verbal and relational aggression. In Israeli, normative beliefs in boys were higher than girls in 5(th) and 6(th) grade, similar in 7(th) and 8(th) grade, and then higher again in 9(th) and 10(th) grade. In the U.S., boys had higher normative beliefs about cyberbullying than girls, and older students had higher beliefs than younger students. Findings using logistic regression indicated that normative beliefs about cyberbullying were predictive of Cyber-aggression even when taking into account grade, country, gender, access to electronic devices, and face-to-face relational aggression. Cyber-aggressive strategies were more likely to be present at the highest level of normative beliefs. Ways to change student beliefs using a social cognitive perspective are discussed. Elsevier 2019-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6928304/ /pubmed/31890969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e03048 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Peled, Yehuda Medvin, Mandy B. Pieterse, Efrat Domanski, Linda Normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of Israeli and U.S. youth |
title | Normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of Israeli and U.S. youth |
title_full | Normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of Israeli and U.S. youth |
title_fullStr | Normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of Israeli and U.S. youth |
title_full_unstemmed | Normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of Israeli and U.S. youth |
title_short | Normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of Israeli and U.S. youth |
title_sort | normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of israeli and u.s. youth |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6928304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31890969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e03048 |
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