Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4): 580-589.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.04.14

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Adolescents' Outsider Behaviors in School Bullying: The Roles of School Climate, School Connectedness and Moral Disengagement

BAO Zhenzhou, CHU Yijia, WANG Fan, LIU Xixi   

  1. School of Educational Science, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou 341000
  • Published:2023-07-19

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Abstract: Outsider behaviors in school bullying refer to adolescents witness bullying but stay uninvolved and shy away. Previous literature has documented that positive school climate was negatively related to adolescents' outsider behaviors. However, the mediating processes underlying the above relation remains largely unknown. Based on cognitive-emotional pathways model, the present study examined whether school connectedness (emotional factor) and moral disengagement (cognitive factor) served as mediators in the relationship between school climate and adolescents' outsider behaviors. A total of 1562 adolescents was recruited to filled out questionnaires in this study. The results showed that: (1) Positive school climate is negatively related to adolescents' outsider behaviors; (2) School connectedness and moral disengagement mediated this association, which contained three significant mediating pathways: the mediating roles of school connectedness (36.36% of the total effect), moral disengagement (15.15% of the total effect); and the chain mediating roles of school connectedness-moral disengagement (15.15% of the total effect).

Key words: school climate, school connectedness, moral disengagement, adolescents' outsider behaviors, mediation

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  • B844
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