Differences in adolescents' motivations for indirect, direct, and hybrid peer defending

Social Development
Jeroen PronkLydia Krabbendam

Abstract

Adolescents' defending of peers who are being bullied-or peer defending-was recently found to be a heterogeneous behavioral construct. The present study investigated individual differences in adolescents' motivations for executing these indirect, direct, and hybrid defending behaviors. In line with the literature on bullying as goal-directed strategic behavior, we adopted a social evolution theory framework to investigate whether these peer-defending behaviors could qualify as goal-directed strategic prosocial behaviors. A sample of 549 Dutch adolescents (49.4% boys; Mage = 12.5 years, SD = 0.6 years) participated in this study. Their peer reported defending behaviors (including bullying behavior as a control variable) and the following behavioral motivations were assessed: (a) agentic and communal goals (self-report), (b) prosocial and coercive social strategies (peer report), and (c) altruistic and egocentric motivations for prosocial behavior (self-report). The outcomes of hierarchical linear regression analyses suggest that adolescents' motivations for executing the different subtypes of peer defending partially overlap but are also different. While indirect defending was fostered by genuine concerns for victims' well-being...Continue Reading

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Feb 8, 2020·Journal of Research on Adolescence : the Official Journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence·Karin S FreyBrendan R Eagan
Dec 11, 2020·Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology·Lydia Laninga-WijnenAntonius H N Cillessen
Jan 21, 2021·Aggressive Behavior·Jeroen PronkFrits A Goossens
Mar 18, 2020·Journal of School Psychology·Laura J Lambe, Wendy M Craig
Apr 16, 2021·Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology·Sarah T MalamutChristina Salmivalli

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