Anja Schultze-Krumbholz, Anne Siebenbrock & Herbert ScheithauerUnit of Developmental Science and Applied Developmental PsychologyDepartment of Educational Science and Psychology

DAPHNE III –Discussion and Decisions

Meeting in Thessaloniki, June 20-21, 2011

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Greece‘s points for discussion

- Broader categories of CB?- Both for victims and self-reported acts- Severity, type?

- Validity of self-reported acts?- Item „attack in online game“- Refusing facebook invitations = cyberbullying?

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Discussion of Greek Presentation

- intention? Perceived as joke, form of communication where no one feels insulted- How much do players know about their counterparts and do they then realise that

they might insult the counterpart when they make a sexist joke assuming the other is also a male?

- No indirect indices to assess emotional impact … suggestion Greece: follow-up focus groups

- Where does cyberbullying end?- Comparing victim and bully perspective of most important incidents? Might be

different

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Discussion of German presentation

- cut-off scores for bullying/cyberbullying scales

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Spanish presentation

- Exclude subscale „support for cultural pluralism“ due to low consistencies across countries?

- Suggestion: not involved/once or twice not involved, 2-3 times occasional, once a week/several times a week frequent

- Use three different criteria: e.g. compute scale score like American researchers- Take online games out of instrument or leave it in?

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Polish presentation

- Help seeking- Online behavior, experiences with being criticised online for actions (e.g. by

moderators)

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UK presentation

DAPHNE II- Most cyberbullying by SNS- Decrease in traditional bullying/victimisation due to anti-bullying work in UK?- No change in cyberbullying/victimisation no focus on anti-cyberbullying

interventions

DAPHNE III- Not collected yet problems with EU

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Italian presentation

DAPHNE II- How can the decrease be explained? sample composition?- Comparisons among countries? Which data are comparable?- Publications?

DAPHNE III- Code different cyberbullying items differently? E.g. photos/videos? Weight single

items differently? When cyberbullying affects something that can be permanent?

Scales- 10 subscale structure not confirmed- Problems with „cultural pluralism“

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Data coding

Scoring of SES:- Compute separately for parents- Do descriptives of this

School climate:- Run CFA on original subscales- Italy has used all original scales and will reduce to the common 6 scales- Scales should be recoded to 0-4 or 0-3, respectively

Media use- Discussion about scale level- Code the same in all countries so that data is comparable

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Data coding

Bullying/Cyberbullying scoring:- Discussion: median vs. mean vs. sum score- Suggestion: use LCA (decisions based on statistics)

Categorisation approach:- 1. victim: 3 or 4 in any of the victim items and less than 2 in bully items- 2. bully: 3 or 4 in any of the bully items and less than 2 in victim items- 3. bully/victim: 3 or 4 in any of the victim items AND 3 or 4 in any of the bully items- Rosario will send the syntax, everyone will do it for own data set

Latent Class analysis approach:- Whole European data set- Compare to categorisation approach- Responsible person: Anja

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Data analyses

- Latent Class Analyses: Anja (GER)- Validation Bullying/Cyberbullying: Rosario (ESP)- Validation of School Climate: Vassilis (GRE)- Prevalence comparison and socio-economic factors: Jacek (POL)- Combination of school climate and bullying/cyberbullying: Antonella/Annalisa (IT)

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Publication decisions- Teams who make the work can include 3 names, the other partners two authors- Suggestion to have ONE name for the whole group, e.g. „Cyberbullying Research Group“

but problems for internal (universities) evaluations and dissertations- National data and national parts of core questionnaire can be published by national groups

any time

- Which journals to choose?- International journals with impact factor

- Citation of bullying/cyberbullying instrument (European Cyberbullying Questionnaire – ECQ): - Instrument specifically developed for this study- Publish technical report on the internet with the name „European Cyberbullying

Collaborative Research Group“ and cite this report as a source of the instrument; electronic citation

- Put questionnaire on the internet

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Deadlines

Send data set with core data to Antonella Italy will form a complete common data set across all countries- Italy will create new variable for country- Antonella will send example file by end of June- Send national data set by July 15, 2011

- First draft of manuscript by end-October, 2011

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Miscellaneous

- Use Drop Box for saving the data of the group

- International book on intervention approaches (DAPHNE III outcome) with national guidelines and data- But use English/international publisher and not national publisher- Suggestion: E-Book in english and national language- Italy will prepare a national AND international book- Book proposal: Italy

- No spending of budget after March 31, 2012- if DAPHNE money is needed for publication, contract needs to be made

BEFORE March 31, 2012 !!!

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Some common instruments

- Greece: moral disengagement, basic empathy scale, descriptive norms- Send presentations with overview of instruments to Vassilis Vassilis will make

overview of overlap on second day of meeting