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Cyberbullying Among Adolescent Bystanders: Role of Affective Versus Cognitive Empathy in Increasing Prosocial Cyberbystander Behavior

Julia Barlińska, Anna Szuster, Mikołaj Winiewski

Frontiers in Psychology · 2018

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The purpose of this study was to investigate if affective (vicarious sharing of emotions) and cognitive empathy (mental perspective taking) induction may stimulate adolescent online bystanders' intervention in cyberbullying cases. The role of reporting the abuse is crucial because it is a form of active support to the victim, initiated by children, to stop the bullying. The effectiveness of empathy activation in decreasing negative cyberbystander reinforcing behavior has been proved in previous studies. The effects of affective and cognitive empathy activation on positive cyberbystander behavior, defined as reporting the bullying online, were explored in two follow-up studies <i>N</i> = 271 and <i>N</i> = 265. The influence of experiencing cyberbullying as perpetrator, victim, and as deter

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00799
Catalogue ID
SNmohbaxtc-r3i0jj
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