Expressed Readiness of Australian Schoolchildren to Act as Bystanders in Support of Children who are Being Bullied

By K. Rigby, Bruce Johnson. 2006

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Coping with bullying in Australian schools: how children with disabilities experience support from friends, parents and teachers (2010, background): “Bystanders who may support children who are being bullied also have a ‘positive attitude towards victims’ (Rigby and Johnson 2006).”
Why Do Bystanders of Bullying Help or Not? A Multidimensional Model (2013, background): “Despite the fact that most children show attitudes against bullying and report intentions to help victims in hypothetical situations (Boulton, Trueman, & Flemington, 2002; Rigby & Johnson, 2006; Rigby & Slee, 1991; Whitney & Smith, 1993), actual defending behavior is less common.”
Bullying and the peer group: A review (2010, background): “Rigby and Johnson (2006) found that children who believed that their friends (and parents)”
Bullying in schools: the power of bullies and the plight of victims. (2014, background): “Youths rarely challenge bullies by intervening when witnessing bullying incidents (e.g., O’Connell et al. 1999), although most condemn bullying behaviors (Boulton et al. 2002, Rigby & Johnson 2006).”
Individual Motivations and Characteristics Associated With Bystander Intervention During Bullying Episodes Among Children and Youth (2012, background): “…as well as the belief that they would defend peers if/when witnessing bullying; however, only 17% to 46% of students report having actually intervened during a bullying episode (Nickerson, Mele, & Princiotta, 2008; Poyhonen & Salmivalli, 2008; Rigby & Johnson, 2006; Salmivalli et al., 1996).”
Moral Disengagement Among Bystanders to School Bullying (2011, background): “Despite the fact that most children’s attitudes are against bullying and the fact that most children report to have intentions of support to victimized peers in hypothetical bullying situations (e.g., Rigby & Johnson, 2006), actual defending behavior seems to be rare.”
A classmate in distress: schoolchildren as bystanders and their reasons for how they act (2007, background): “…pressure, (e.g., Thornberg, 2006a), group think (e.g., Janis & Mann, 1982), and the bystander effect (e.g., Hoffman, 2000; Latené & Darley, 1970), and (d) lack of skills or competence, i.e., not knowing how to help or intervene (e.g., Latené & Darley, 1970; Bierhoff, 2002; Rigby & Johnson, 2006).”
Bystander Intervention in Cyberbullying (2016, background): “Middle school-aged children were more likely to report assisting a victim of offline bullying when they had positive attitudes toward the victim (Rigby & Johnson, 2006).”
Willingness to Intervene in Bullying Episodes Among Middle School Students (2012, background): “Rigby and Johnson (2006) found that greater willingness to intervene was associated with having a positive attitude toward victims, having rarely or never bullied others, and having been victimized.”
Bystanders to bullying: fourth- to seventh-grade students’ perspectives on their reactions (2014, background): “(girl, grade 6) Peer pressure has a major impact on how bystanders respond (cf. Pozzoli, Ang, and Gini 2012; Pozzoli and Gini 2010, 2013; Rigby and Johnson 2006), and those whom they define as their friends in the situation represent a major source of peer pressure.”
What Does It Take to Stand Up for the Victim of Bullying?: The Interplay Between Personal and Social Factors (2010, background): “However, in the study by Andreou and Metallidou (2004), social selfefficacy (self-efficacy for assertion) was not associated with standing up for a victim (see also Rigby & Johnson, 2006) in a sample of Greek fourth to sixth graders.”
Predictors of student defenders of peer aggression victims: Empathy and social cognitive factors (2011, background): “Despite the important role of student ‘‘defenders’’ in reducing bullying in schools (Salmivalli, 1999; Salmivalli & Voeten, 2004), research on defending victims is in its infancy (Rigby & Johnson, 2006; Salmivalli & Voeten, 2004).”