The influence of participant role, gender, and age in elementary and high-school children's moral justifications of cyberbullying behaviors

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Highlights:

• Moral rules were frequently used in reference to a perpetrator's behavior.

• Morally disengaged justifications were used significantly more in reference to a bystander's behavior.

• Age predicted youth's use of deviant rules in reference to a negative on-line behavior.

• High school students were more desensitized towards bystanders than elementary school students.

摘要

•Moral rules were frequently used in reference to a perpetrator's behavior.•Morally disengaged justifications were used significantly more in reference to a bystander's behavior.•Age predicted youth's use of deviant rules in reference to a negative on-line behavior.•High school students were more desensitized towards bystanders than elementary school students.

论文关键词:Cyberbullying,Moral justifications,Moral responsibility,Moral disengagement

论文评审过程:Available online 1 February 2018, Version of Record 10 February 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.01.044