“…Moral disengagement has been positively related to aggression (Bandura, Barbaranelli, Caprara, & Pastorelli, 1996;Bandura, Caprara, Barbaranelli, & Pastorelli, 2001;Paciello, Fida, Tramontano, Lupinetti, & Caprara, 2008;Pelton, Gound, Forehand, & Brody, 2004;Pornari & Wood, 2010), including bullying behavior (Gini, Pozzoli, & Hauser, 2011;Hymel, Rocke-Henderson, & Bonanno, 2005;Menesini et al, 2003;Obermann, 2011b;Perren et al, 2012), and negatively related to prosocial behavior (Bandura et al, 1996(Bandura et al, , 2001). Gini (2006) found that students who were peer-nominated as bullies, assistants or reinforcers, demonstrated higher moral disengagement than defenders.…”