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Project

Eyes on the teacher as a bystander in school bullying: Insight into helpful and harmful teacher responses to bullying.

Worldwide, many children are suffering from being bullied by peers at school. Although teachers are key in decreasing this alarming problem, their role in bullying is underexamined and many questions remain. The proposed project 'ET' is designed to provide highly needed evidence regarding helpful and harmful teacher responses to bullying and sets eyes on teachers as bystanders in bullying. Four studies with different designs will address several important gaps in this emerging field of research. A person-oriented approach will be adopted to identify profiles of teachers’ responses to bullying incidents and to examine how these profiles longitudinally predict bullying and moderate its association with social-emotional outcomes (Study 1). Additionally, we will extend the influential participant role approach - conceptualizing bullying as a group process among students - to teachers and shed light on the potential roles of teachers as bystanders in bullying. A qualitative study (Study 2), followed by the development and validation of a scale in a cross-sectional study (Study 3), and, finally, an experimental study (Study 4) will be conducted. This work will refine theorizing and research on teachers’ responses to bullying and take the participant role approach to a next level, benefiting both scientific knowledge as well as educational practice.
Date:1 Oct 2022 →  30 Sep 2023
Keywords:bullying at school, profiles of teachers responses to bullyi, teachers' participant role behaviors in
Disciplines:Educational and school psychology