Moral disengagement and bullying perpetration: A longitudinal study of the moderating effect of school climate.

Abstract

= 1.53; 49.7% male) from 6 secondary schools in Southwest China. At the between-person level, students with higher moral disengagement and more negative perceptions of school climate perpetrated more bullying than those with lower moral disengagement and more positive perceptions of school climate. At the within-person level, students with high moral disengagement and negative perceptions of school climate had high levels of bullying perpetration over time. Moreover, significant between-person, within-person, and cross-level interactions revealed that the association between moral disengagement and bullying perpetration was weaker and nonsignificant for students with more positive perceptions of school climate. Findings indicated a buffering effect of students' perceptions of positive school climate in the longitudinal association between moral disengagement and bullying perpetration. Implications for school-based individualized bullying intervention were discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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