Collective efficacy in the school context: does it help explain victimization and bullying among Greek primary and secondary school students?
Sapouna, Maria. (2010) Collective efficacy in the school context: does it help explain victimization and bullying among Greek primary and secondary school students? Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol.25 (No.10). pp. 1912-1927. ISSN 0886-2605Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260509354509
Collective efficacy, defined as informal social controls that operate under social norms of trust, is an emerging theoretical concept that has been applied to explain violence rates in neighborhoods, affiliation with deviant peers, partner violence, and adolescent delinquency. This study employed a multilevel design to examine the association between collective efficacy at the class-level and individual-level bullying perpetration and victimization using survey data from 1,729 Greek students, aged 11 to 14 years. School class collective efficacy was defined as cohesion and trust among class members combined with their willingness to intervene in the case of aggressive or bullying incidents. Our findings indicate that individual-level victimization is more frequent in classes with lower levels of collective efficacy. We conclude that the notion of collective efficacy might also prove useful in explaining bullying involvement.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
|Subjects:||H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
|Divisions:||Faculty of Science > Psychology|
|Journal or Publication Title:||Journal of Interpersonal Violence|
|Publisher:||Sage Publications, Inc.|
|Official Date:||October 2010|
|Number of Pages:||16|
|Page Range:||pp. 1912-1927|
|Access rights to Published version:||Restricted or Subscription Access|
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