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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

In a new study, we found that students who had more negative relationships with their teachers and students who belonged to school classes with a less positive class climate were more likely to engage in both traditional and cyber #bullying one year later. #edpsychs doi.org/10.1002/berj...

The current study aimed to investigate whether negative student–teacher relationships and within-class perceptions of the class climate at the individual level, and positive class climates at the cla....

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Mapping the language of professional vision: exploring obstacles and strategies for stimulating a positive school climate in three Swedish middle schools

Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Aug 18

Check out our new qualitative study examining how professional vision is expressed by teachers and other school staff in relation to their roles in promoting a positive school climate and identifying and preventing bullying and peer harassment. doi.org/10.1080/2000...

A positive school climate is both pivotal for opposing bullying and other degrading treatment and dependent upon a whole-school approach. Although a growing body of research emphasises the importan...

Well-functioning class climate and classroom prevalence of bullying victims: a short-term longitudinal class-Level path analysis - Social Psychology of Education

Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Aug 17

Check out our validated behavior-based #bullying scale—power imbalance is built in, so it’s not just an aggression scale. It’s free for everyone to use. #EdPsych #EduSky : psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Aug 13

In this new study, we found that school classes with a more well-functioning class climate were more likely to have a lower proportion of victims of #bullying one semester later. #edpsychs doi.org/10.1007/s112...

While research on how classroom climate impacts students’ bullying behavior has increased over past decades, studies on how a well-functioning class climate may impact the classroom prevalence of vict...

Can Expressing Feelings About Violence be a Protective Buffer in the Linkage Between Bullying Victimization and Delinquent Activities? - Journal of Prevention

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Jul 3

Our new study on #bullying victimization, #delinquency, and feelings about #violence is now published in an issue. #EdPsychs doi.org/10.1007/s109...

The current study explores whether expressing feelings about violence through journal or notebook and/or school assignment might be associated with a decrease in delinquent activities, such as substan...

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Jun 30

Today’s playlist (dreamy electronic music to get the right mood) while translating an English survey into Swedish. open.spotify.com/playlist/2tV...

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Jun 29

In this recent study—with PhD student Antonio Cabrera-Vázquez as the lead author—we found that moral disengagement and schadenfreude at the individual level and moral disengagement at the classroom level were positively linked to #bullying perpetration. #EdPsychs doi.org/10.1080/1538...

Schadenfreude and Bullying in Adolescents. Is Class Moral Disengagement a Moderator?

The aim of this study was to examine whether schadenfreude and moral disengagement at the individual level, and class moral disengagement at the classroom level, are associated with bullying perpet...

Prevalence Rates of Bullying: A Comparison Between a Definition-Based Scale and a Behavior-Based Scale - Björn Sjögren, Ylva Bjereld, Robert Thornberg, Jun Sung Hong, Dorothy L. Espelage, 2025

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Jun 16

I had the honor of serving as a keynote speaker at WABF and would like to reiterate my message: If you are an early-career bullying researcher, we need to know more about classroom-level collective efficacy to stop peer aggression, class climate, and collective moral disengagement. #edpsychs

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · May 26

Today, the Swedish king passed by my window at the university.

Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · May 26

Check out this study in which we compared #bullying perpetration and victimization prevalence rates between a definition-based scale and a behavior-based scale. #edpsychs doi.org/10.1177/0886...

Self-reported measures of school bullying can be divided into two subtypes. Definition-based measures present a bullying definition followed by one question abo...

Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Apr 27

Dr Greg Hadley offers a grounded theory workshop. For more info, check out the document below.

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Apr 23

Check out our new qualitative study examining how school students describe obstacles and strategies for creating a positive school climate based on how they perceived the vision and noticing of school professionals. www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14...

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Inclusive education and the bullying involvement of boys with special educational needs at a Swedish elementary school

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Paul Horton @paulhortonse.bsky.social · Apr 10

My latest article about inclusive education and the bullying involvement of boys with special educational needs, co-authored by Camilla Forsberg and @drthornberg.bsky.social, is now freely available online in the International Journal of Inclusive Education: doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Previous research has found that students with special educational needs (SEN) are at increased risk of involvement in school bullying, that they tend to have fewer friends than non-SEN peers, and ...

From Dark Triad Personality Traits to Digital Harm: Mediating Cyberbullying Through Online Moral Disengagement

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Mar 25

In this study, we found that narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and moral disengagement were directly linked to cyberbullying; Machiavellianism and psychopathy were also indirectly linked to cyberbullying, mediated by moral disengagement. doi.org/10.1080/0163...

This study aimed to investigate (a) the relationships between the three dimensions of dark triad personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy), moral disengagement, and cyberbu...

Classroom Bullying: Understanding Bystander Reactions Across Different Bullying Types

Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Mar 25

Our study on bystander reactions across different bullying types, with Tomas Jungert as the lead author, is finally published in an issue. doi.org/10.1080/1538...

School-based bullying is a widespread issue, but it occurs less often when bystanders defend the victims. This study examined whether type of bullying and students’ trust in their teacher’s ability...

Teacher–Student Relationship Quality and Student Engagement: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Study

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Mar 1

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Mar 1

Vance accused Zelensky engaging in propaganda. Well, this showed up on my feed today.

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Mar 1

In addition to the quantitative findings showing that teacher–student relationship quality predicts student engagement one year later, the qualitative findings showed that students want teachers to be kind, caring, helpful, skilled, funny, and fair. doi.org/10.1080/0267...

The overall objective of this study was to examine the links between teacher–student relationship quality and student engagement, delimited to affective and behavioural engagement. We used a sequen...

A qualitative study of Swedish pupils’ perspectives on supportive school climates and help-seeking

Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Feb 25

Check out this study on Swedish students' perspectives on supportive school climates and help-seeking; 59 focus group interviews; three main categories: (1) teachers as sources of support; (2) availability of support; and (3) consistent and responsive support. doi.org/10.1080/0264...

The aim of this study is to explore pupils’ perspectives on school climate, with a focus on help-seeking from teachers when experiencing unsafe incidents. Fifty-nine focus group interviews were con...

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Robert Thornberg @drthornberg.bsky.social · Feb 25

In this study, we examined the prevalence of childhood conduct disorder and bullying perpetration and their association with parenting practices among Ukrainian children living in proximity to the war. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

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