Showing friendship, fighting back, and getting even: resisting bullying victimization within adolescent girls’ friendships

Bouchard, Karen; Forsberg, Camilla; Smith, Jennifer; Thornberg, Robert

doi:10.1080/13676261.2018.1450970

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“…This was also noticed by coaches, who observed that athletes with "principled" moral reasoning scores were rated as significantly less aggressive [17]. Research shows that some psychological characteristics like aggression, especially in sport, can also be associated with genetic factors influencing sport performance [18], with retaliatory relational aggression [19], or with fatigue that triggers loss of self-control, specifically in young individuals with high moral disengagement [20]. However, can this explain the whole range of pro-or antisocial behaviors in youth sports?…”

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The Role of Sports Practice in Young Adolescent Development of Moral Competence

Bronikowska

Korcz²,

Bronikowski³

2020

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The study examined the moral competence levels in adolescents participating in individual/team sports compared with those not undertaking sports at all. In total, 827 students aged 15–17 years old (45.4% boys, 54.6% girls) from randomly selected secondary schools in the Wielkopolska region in Poland participated in the study. The moral competences were assessed using the Lind’s Moral Competence Test. The students also answered questions concerning their statues of involvement in sport (not involved; amateur; professional), years of involvement, and the type of sport they partook in (individual/team). The results highlight that the moral competence level in most of the examined adolescents (71.6% girls, 76.8% boys) was low. Those who presented a high moral competence level were 10.4% in girls, 8% in boys. There was no interaction between modes of involvement in sport and moral competence when comparing adolescents. The moral competence levels were not correlated with years of training in either mode of involvement or with type of sports. Therefore, we assume that, at this age, the type of sport and the level of engagement do not differentiate moral competence level and that there must be more factors contributing to this. This opens new directions for further research on the role of external factors stimulating the socio-moral growth of youth.

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The Role of Sports Practice in Young Adolescent Development of Moral Competence

Bronikowska

Korcz²,

Bronikowski³

2020

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“…These positive interludes also provide opportunities for victimized individuals to minimize the problem or to rationalize the aggression as temporary or exceptional moments in the relationship. Similarly, previous research has noted that the intermittency of maltreatment alternating with closeness is a common characteristic of bullying that occurs within friendships, and Traumatic Bonding Theory suggests that this may actually reinforce the relationship bonds between the victim and friend who bullies (Bouchard et al, 2018;Crick & Nelson, 2002;Daniels et al, 2010;Mishna et al, 2008).…”

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“…Some scholars have posited that when a friend perpetrates the abuse these reactions will be more intense, as feelings of betrayal and violations of trust compound the effects of victimization (Brendgen, Girard, Vitaro, Dionne, & Boivin, 2014; Connolly, Pepler, Craig, & Taradash, 2000). Paradoxically, victimized youth may “show friendship” by complimenting and providing gifts to their abuser and by participating in other normative behaviors of the friendship (Bouchard, Forsberg, Smith, & Thornberg, 2018). Other research has determined that children are more likely to report that they “did nothing” to stop the bullying when a friend victimized them compared to a non-friend, fearing they would lose the friendship (Craig, Pepler, & Blais, 2007).…”

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“…Thus, victimized children typically opt not to disclose the bullying when it is perpetrated by a friend (deLara, 2012; Mishna et al, 2008). Studies have also revealed that children and adolescents are likely to continue in victimizing friendships despite their suffering (Bouchard et al, 2018; Crick & Nelson, 2002; Daniels et al, 2010; Mishna et al, 2008). Yet, the complex reasons underlying this choice are still largely unknown.…”

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Individual and Social-Contextual Factors Underlying Adolescents’ Commitment to Victimizing Friendships: A Qualitative Analysis

Bouchard

Smith

Woods

2020

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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Previous research indicates that victimized youth are reluctant to address their friends’ victimizing behaviors and are likely to remain in a victimizing friendship despite experiencing significant distress. Research investigating the complex factors underlying this commitment to victimizing friendships is required. To this end, a qualitative research design was used as previously victimized youth asynchronously contributed to an anonymous online discussion forum for 2 months. Guided by two theories used to understand staying/leaving processes in intimate partner violence and a social-ecological systems perspective, the data were captured into descriptive categories. The results demonstrate that adolescents ( N = 25) were reluctant to address their friends’ victimizing behaviors and many persisted in their victimizing friendships. The factors underlying this reluctance were categorized as cognitive, relational, and contextual. The results indicate that persisting in a friendship despite feeling victimized can seem paradoxical to outsiders but there are clear reasons underlying adolescents’ choices.

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“…Previous studies have shown that it is difficult to recruit victimized youth to participate in research utilizing interviews. Using various ways to recruit participants, previous studies ended up with around 10 interviewees, similar with this study (Bouchard et al 2018;Thornberg et al 2011). In grounded theory categories are considered saturated when more interviews do not spark new theoretical insights (Charmaz 2014).…”

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Adults’ responses to bullying: the victimized youth’s perspectives

Bjereld

Daneback

Mishna

2019

Research Papers in Education

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Children are generally encouraged to tell adults about bullying. Although telling can be effective in ending bullying, adults do not necessarily respond in a way that is helpful. Previous research has rarely included victims' own thoughts and feelings regarding what adult actions and reactions are experienced as positive and helpful, and which are experienced as negative and unhelpful in managing bullying situations. This paper reports on interviews with bullied youth, with the overall aims of describing adults' responses to bullying from the victimized youth's perspectives and discussing how the youth experienced these responses. The analysis comprised grounded theory, emphasizing the victimized youth's points of view. When adults became aware of bullying, they responded in three ways; verbal, physical or avoiding/ignoring. Responses that included increasing adult presence were typically experienced as helpful, as were responses whereby the youth felt adults listened without blaming the victim for the bullying or, listened without excusing the behaviour of the youth that bullied. No response was depicted by the participants as unambiguously helpful although when adults avoided or ignored the bullying it was never helpful.

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Showing friendship, fighting back, and getting even: resisting bullying victimization within adolescent girls’ friendships

Cited by 17 publications

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The Role of Sports Practice in Young Adolescent Development of Moral Competence

The Role of Sports Practice in Young Adolescent Development of Moral Competence

Individual and Social-Contextual Factors Underlying Adolescents’ Commitment to Victimizing Friendships: A Qualitative Analysis

Adults’ responses to bullying: the victimized youth’s perspectives

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