Collective moral disengagement: Initial validation of a scale for adolescents

Gini, Gianluca; Pozzoli, Tiziana; Bussey, Kay

doi:10.1080/17405629.2013.851024

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“…Higher levels of moral disengagement proneness were associated with higher levels of selfreported cyberbullying. This finding is consistent with the many studies that have shown a link between traditional bullying and the use of moral disengagement strategies to justify bullying behavior (Almeida et al, 2010;Ando, Asakura, & Simons-Morton, 2005;Caravita et al, 2012;Gini, 2006;Gini, Pozzoli, & Bussey, 2014;Hymel et al, 2005;Menesini et al, 2003;Obermann, 2011;Pornari & Wood, 2010;Thornberg & Jungert, 2013). It further shows that this linkage between bullying and moral disengagement is not confined to traditional bullying.…”

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The Role of Moral Disengagement and Self-Efficacy in Cyberbullying

Bussey

Fitzpatrick

Raman

2014

Journal of School Violence

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The Role of Moral Disengagement and Self-Efficacy in Cyberbullying

Bussey

Fitzpatrick

Raman

2014

Journal of School Violence

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“…Students' beliefs about their collective moral disengagement in peer victimisation were measured through the same items as those measuring individual moral disengagement to avoid the risk of test effects due to different items when comparing individual and collective moral disengagement. However, following the original procedure (Gini et al, 2014) to capture the collective dimension of moral disengagement, this scale asked, 'How many students in your classroom agree with the following? ', and offered five response categories ('none', 'about a quarter', 'about half', 'about three quarters', 'all').…”

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Associations between students’ bystander behavior and individual and classroom collective moral disengagement

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Thornberg

Wänström

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Educational Psychology

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This study examined whether students' bystander behaviours in peer victimisation were associated with individual (IMD) and classroom collective moral disengagement (CMD). Self-report survey data were analysed from 1577 Swedish students in fifth grade. Multilevel analyses revealed that, when witnessing peer victimisation, students more often sided with the victimisers if they belonged to classrooms high in CMD, especially if they simultaneously were high in IMD. Furthermore, staying passive was associated with higher levels of IMD and CMD, whereas defending the victims was associated with lower levels of IMD and CMD. Taken together, our findings suggest that moral disengagement beliefs both at the individual and at the classroom-level contribute to explain variability in students' bystander behaviours, which has potential implications for prevention and intervention work.

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“…Researches done in the area shown individual and collective disengagement being positively associated with peer aggression and by-standing.. As compared to individual moral disengagement taking responsibility and reveling desired behavior is difficult in collective moral disengagement. In the later, responsibility is shared in the group [18,19,20].…”

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“…At the end of analysis made within the scope of reliability, the internal consistency coefficient is computed as 0.84. In addition, fit indexes were obtained at good level at the end of confirmatory factor analysis [18].…”

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“…Collective Moral Disengagement Scale for Adolescents (CMDS) has been developed by Gini, Pozzoli and Bussey [18] to determine collective moral disengagement levels of adolescents. Collective moral disengagement scale has been formed with adaptation of items of individual moral disengagement scale -developed by Bandura et al's [4]-into classroom environment.…”

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Adaptation of Collective Moral Disengagement Scale into Turkish Culture for Adolescents

Çapan¹,

Bakioğlu²

2016

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In this study, reliability and validity are assessed for a Turkish culture adaptation of the Collective Moral Disengagement Scale for Adolescents. The study was carried out in two stages. In the first stage, translation, exploratory factor analysis, internal consistency coefficients, and test-retest method were performed; in the second stage, confirmatory factor analysis, and compliance validation study were conducted. In the first stage of the research, a total of 339 adolescents and in the second stage, 283 adolescents participated. At the end of the exploratory factor analysis performed in the first stage of the research, it is observed that the CMDS (Collective Moral Disengagement Scale for Adolescents) explained 35 percent of total variance. The factor loadings of the scale items ranged from 0.41 to 0.76. In addition, the internal consistency coefficient was found as 0.86 and test-retest reliability coefficient as 0.86 at the end of the analysis made for the CMDS's reliability in the first stage. At the end of confirmatory factor analysis made in the second stage, acceptable fit indices were obtained (χ 2 =288.07, df= 90, χ 2 /df= 3.20, RMSEA=0.08, RMR=0.13, SRMR=0.06, GFI=0.89, AGFI=0.85, CFI=0.94, NNFI=0.93). Within the compliance validity of CMDS, correlation coefficients of Bullying Scale and Bullying Sub-scale (0.41) and the Victim Subscale (0.47) were examined. In conclusion, we can say that the Turkish form of 15-item Collective Moral Disengagement Scale for Adolescents is valid and reliable.

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Collective moral disengagement: Initial validation of a scale for adolescents

Cited by 44 publications

References 14 publications

The Role of Moral Disengagement and Self-Efficacy in Cyberbullying

The Role of Moral Disengagement and Self-Efficacy in Cyberbullying

Associations between students’ bystander behavior and individual and classroom collective moral disengagement

Adaptation of Collective Moral Disengagement Scale into Turkish Culture for Adolescents

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