Longitudinal Relationships between Bullying and Moral Disengagement among Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1304-1317

  Wang, Cixin ^a   Ryoo, Ji Hoon ^b   Swearer, Susan M ^c   Turner, Rhonda ^d   Goldberg, Taryn S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Bullying; Cross lagged model; Gender; Grade; Moral disengagement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; BULLYING; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MORALITY; PRECURSOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STUDENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; HUMAN RELATION; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; BULLYING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MORALS; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 84990837281     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0577-0     Document Type: Article

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