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The Effect Of A Class-Wide Training On Prosocial Bystander Behaviors, Charity Deanne Barnes
The Effect Of A Class-Wide Training On Prosocial Bystander Behaviors, Charity Deanne Barnes
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to decrease school bullying by teaching defending steps and increasing incentives for bystanders, students who witness bullying but who are not necessarily involved in the violence. An established bullying prevention program was modified to increase the likelihood that bystanders would defend victims of bullying behaviors. The findings of the study suggested that bullying behavior decreased and defending increased. Further, acceptability of the intervention and the skills taught to children were rated as moderately high across all classrooms.
Teaching Bystander Skills Through Fluency Training, Emilee Hagloch
Teaching Bystander Skills Through Fluency Training, Emilee Hagloch
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention that adds a fluency component to teaching bystanders how to defend other students during a bullying situation. Bystander skills were taught to fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms and fluency training was added to several of these classrooms as an experimental group. Students also filled out rating scales to find out what their participant role in bullying situations was (defender of the victim, outsider, bully, victim of the bully, assistant to the bully). Results showed that there was more growth on the fluency scores for those who participated in the fluency training as opposed …