Enhancing children's responsibility to take action against bullying: Evaluation of a befriending intervention in Italian middle schools

By Ersilia Menesini, Elena Codecasa, B. Benelli, H. Cowie. 2003

253 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Plant Science, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/80da8905f42312858fe2b771241d13d635a718b6

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

In Plant Science

In Social Psychology

Citations in the corpus

School-Based Programs to Reduce Bullying and Victimization (2012, methodology): “For example, the Befriending Intervention Program (Menesini et al., 2003) included both parent training/meetings and teacher training, though these intervention components were not”
A systematic review of school-based interventions to prevent bullying. (2007, background): “An Italian schoolwide peer support intervention prevented some of the increased negative behaviors and attitudes reported in the control group on student reports.(37) Examining administrative office records, Metzler et al(38) found decreased discipline referrals (P=.”
Middle School Victims of Bullying: Who Reports Being Bullied? (2004, background): “Other researchers hypothesized that the age-related decline in reporting can be attributed to victims developing more successful coping strategies and protective friendships [Menesini et al., 2003; Newman et al., 2001; Smith et al., 2001].”
Bullying and the peer group: A review (2010, background): “Finally, girls are nominated as defenders more often than boys, both by their classmates at large (e.g., Goossens et al., 2006; Menesini et al., 2003; Pöyhönen et al., in press; Salmivalli et al., 1996) and by victims themselves (Sainio et al.”
School-Based Programs to Reduce Bullying and Victimization: A Systematic Review (2009, methodology): “For example, the Befriending Intervention Program (Menesini et al., 2003) included both parent training/meetings and teacher training, though these intervention components were not”
Expressed Readiness of Australian Schoolchildren to Act as Bystanders in Support of Children who are Being Bullied (2006, background): “…psychologists to address the question of how bullying in schools can be reduced through encouraging bystanders to engage in pro-social and interventive behaviour to assist victims of peer victimisation, as evident, for instance, in the recent work of Menesini, Codecasa, and Benelli (2003).”
Effectiveness of school-based programs to reduce bullying: a systematic and meta-analytic review (2011, background): “…et al. (2006)a 1.23 0.63–2.42 ns 1.38 0.70–2.72 ns Martin et al. (2005)a 2.56 0.33–19.63 ns 1.97 0.23–16.78 ns Melton et al. (1998) 1.52 1.24–1.85 .0001 1.06 0.91–1.23 ns Menard et al. (2008) 1.74 1.45–2.09 .0001 1.26 1.05–1.51 .013 Menesini et al. (2003) 1.60 0.81–3.16 ns 1.42 0.84–2.39…”