Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2016
School Bullies' Intention to Change Behavior Following Teacher Interventions: Effects of Empathy Arousal, Condemning of Bullying, and Blaming of the Perpetrator.
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- Why Students Higher in Callous-Unemotional Traits Are More Resistant to Targeted Anti-Bullying Interventions by Teachers: The Role of Biased Perceptions.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Trial
- A Large-Scale Replication of the Effectiveness of the KiVa Antibullying Program: a Randomized Controlled Trial in the Netherlands.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Trial
- Teachers' Responses to Cyberbullying: Psychometric Validation and Latent Profile Analysis Among Chinese Teachers.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The effect of emotion recognition and empathy training on children's empathic tendencies and social acceptance of peers with special needs: a pretest-posttest controlled experimental study.Irish journal of medical science · 2025Article
- Why Do Student Perceptions of Teachers' Condemning of the Bullying and Empathy-Raising Lead to Intention to Stop Bullying? The Role of Emotions.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Do Targeted Interventions Diminish Victimization? Testing the Short- and Longer-term Effectiveness of Condemning, Empathy-Raising, and Combined Approaches.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Relationships Between Empathy and Bullying Among Boys and Girls: A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model Study.Aggressive behavior · 2025Article
- Inter-parental conflict and empathy in early adolescence as predictors of dating violence perpetration in adolescence and adulthood.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2024Article
- Interventions That Failed: Factors Associated with the Continuation of Bullying After a Targeted Intervention.International journal of bullying prevention : an official publication of the International Bullying Prevention Association · 2024Article
- Basic moral sensitivity, moral disengagement, and defender self-efficacy as predictors of students' self-reported bystander behaviors over a school year: a growth curve analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Intention to Stop Bullying following a Condemning, Empathy-Raising, or Combined Message from a Teacher - Do Students' Empathy and Callous-Unemotional Traits Matter?Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Bullying Prevalence among Secondary School Children in Khamis Mushait City, Southwestern Saudi Arabia.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Different Approaches to Address Bullying in KiVa Schools: Adherence to Guidelines, Strategies Implemented, and Outcomes Obtained.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Article
- Prejudice and Ethnic Bullying Among Children: The Role of Moral Disengagement and Student-Teacher Relationship.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Perceived Teacher Responses to Bullying Influence Students' Social Cognitions.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- School Bullying in Compulsory and Advanced Secondary Education. Determining Factors in its Intervention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Bullying Among Tunisian Middle School Students: the Prevalence, Psychosocial Associated Factors and Perceived Involvement of Parents, Teachers and Classmates.Journal of research in health sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
This study examines how bullies' perceptions of how they were treated by a teacher (or other school personnel) during discussions aimed at putting an end to bullying influenced their intention to change their behavior. After each discussion, which took place as part of the implementation of an anti-bullying program, bullies anonymously reported the extent to which they felt that the teacher aroused their empathy for the victim, condemned their behavior, or blamed them. Half of the schools implementing the program were instructed to handle these discussions in a confrontational way-telling the bully that his behavior is not tolerated-while the other half were instructed to use a non-confronting approach. Schools were randomly assigned to one of the two approaches. A total of 341 cases (188 in primary and 153 in secondary schools) handled in 28 Finnish schools were analyzed. Regression analyses showed that attempts at making bullies feel empathy for the victim and condemning their behavior both increased bullies' intention to stop. Blaming the bully had no significant effect. Bullies' intention to change was the lowest when both empathy-arousal and condemning behavior were low. The effects of empathy arousal were stronger when condemning the behavior was low (and vice versa), suggesting that teachers tackling bullying should make sure to use at least one of these strategies. When choosing not to raise the child's empathy, clear reprobation of the behavior is key.
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