Sargioti, Aikaterini ORCID: 0000-0001-9960-1364, Kuldas, Seffetullah ORCID: 0000-0003-3510-4056, Foody, Mairéad ORCID: 0000-0003-0026-0294, Viejo Otero, Paloma ORCID: 0000-0002-8475-8200, Kinahan, Angela, Canning, Colm, Heaney, Darran ORCID: 0000-0003-1343-0918 and O'Higgins Norman, James ORCID: 0000-0003-0997-6942 (2022) Dublin Anti-Bullying Self-Efficacy Models and Scales: Development and Validation. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38 (7-8). pp. 5748-5773. ISSN 0886-2605
Abstract
Literature on anti-bullying programs shows a growing consensus about
promoting victims and bystanders’ self-efficacy against bullying, but provides no theoretical model nor measurement scale to assess the extent of achieving this aim. The current research aims to address these theoretical and empirical gaps by proposing the Dublin Anti-Bullying Self-Efficacy Models and Scales, using a convenience sample of 14-year-old students in Ireland (N=1,100). After establishing both content and face validity, four separate scales were tested to measure anti-bullying self-efficacy beliefs among offline victims (20-item), online victims (20-item), offline bystanders (20-item), and online bystanders (20-item). Thereafter, four separate exploratory factor analyses of the scale items were followed by reflective measurement analyses of their internal consistency and construct (convergent and discriminant) validity. Results indicated sufficient psychometric properties of each scale measuring five dimensions of anti-bullying self-efficacy: recognition, emergency comprehension, responsibility, knowledge, and intervention. Further research is needed to test the proposed model and scale for assessing effectiveness of an anti-bullying program in promoting self-efficacy beliefs.
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Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | victim; bystander; self-efficacy scale; offline bullying; cyberbullying; scale development; scale validation |
Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Initiatives and Centres > Anti-Bullying Research Centre (ABC) |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221127193 |
Copyright Information: | © 2022 The Authors. |
Funders: | Meta, European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no (101026567), Department of Education, Government of Ireland |
ID Code: | 29511 |
Deposited On: | 26 Jan 2024 10:22 by Dylan Pidgeon . Last Modified 06 Feb 2024 13:37 |
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