Counteracting bullying in Finland: The KiVa program and its effects on different forms of being bullied

By Christina Salmivalli, Antti Kärnä, E. Poskiparta. 2011

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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The nature of cyberbullying, and strategies for prevention (2013, background): “If the repetition is not carried out by the perpetrator, is this still cyberbullying? Slonje et al. (2012) asked what ‘actively targeted bystanders’ (pupils who had been sent or shown information intended to cyberbully someone else) do with the information they had seen.”
What is bullying? A theoretical redefinition. (2014, background): “…so by having adults carefully monitor bullying situations and providing appropriate consequences (e.g., Olweus, 1993), reducing peer support for bullying (e.g., KiVa intervention; Salmivalli et al., 2011), or by providing alternate prosocial paths for bullies to achieve their goals (Ellis, 2013).”
Moral disengagement and emotional and social difficulties in bullying and cyberbullying: differences by participant role (2012, background): “The KiVa programme in Finland is an example of a successful anti-bullying programme that takes into account the different participant roles and acknowledges the importance of feeling empathy for the victim, based on the principle that a positive change in the behaviour of classmates can reduce both ”
Bullying in early educational settings (2012, methodology): “According to evaluation studies done in the KiVa programme, bullying seems to have been significantly reduced in Finnish schools, especially in the lower grades (Salmivalli, Karna, & Poskiparta, 2011 ).”
Victims’ perceptions of traditional and cyberbullying, and the psychosocial correlates of their victimisation (2012, background): “As there is a considerable overlap between those students who traditionally bully and those who cyberbully, and victims of traditional bullying are 10 times more likely to be a cybervictim, it follows then that evidence-based strategies such as the KiVa programme (Salmivalli, Karna, and Poskiparta ”