Maltrattamento e Abuso all'Infanzia
Volume 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 59-87

Being immigrant as factor risk to be bullied: An Italian study on individual characteristics and group processes [Essere immigrati come fattore di rischio per la vittimizzazione nel bullismo: Uno studio Italiano su caratteristiche individuali e processi di gruppo] (Review)

Caravita S.C.S. , Donghi E. , Banfi A. , Meneghini F.
  • a Psicologia dello Sviluppo e dell'Educazione, C.R.I.D.E.E., Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
  • b Psicologia dello Sviluppo e Della Comunicazione, C.R.I.D.E.E., Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
  • c Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Comunicazione, Italy
  • d Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Comunicazione, Italy

Abstract

Discriminatory bullying against immigrant is still little studied in Italy. This study aims at investigating whether, in the Italian schools, immigrants are more bullied than natives, whether different dimensions of peer-status are associated to increased risk to be bullied for the immigrants, and whether individual and group factors, especially related to self-justification for bullying against immigrants, are linked to role behaviors in bullying. Participants were 711 pupils of elementary and middle school. Immigrants have been found to be more bullied than their peers. Among immigrants, being younger and less accepted by peers was linked to higher levels of victimization. Furthermore, moral disengagement for bullying against immigrants was linked to higher helping and reinforcing bullies, especially in classrooms in which immigrants actually were victims. There is, hence, the need to develop interventions against discriminatory bullying for immigrants, which also address discriminatory cognitions.

Author Keywords

Peer-group Immigration Moral disengagement Discriminatory bullying

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84978971617&partnerID=40&md5=ffd12f13e9d96290c87496a7c03a1c4a
ISSN: 15914267
Cited by: 7
Original Language: Italian