• DOI:10.1348/000709909X479105
Corpus ID: 33974893

The association between adolescents' beliefs in a just world and their attitudes to victims of bullying.

@article{Fox2010TheAB,
  title={The association between adolescents' beliefs in a just world and their attitudes to victims of bullying.},
  author={C. Fox and T. Elder and Josephine Gater and Elizabeth Johnson},
  journal={The British journal of educational psychology},
  year={2010},
  volume={80 Pt 2},
  pages={
          183-98
        }
}

• C. Fox, T. Elder, +1 author Elizabeth Johnson
• Published 2010
• Psychology, Medicine
• The British journal of educational psychology

BACKGROUND Research which has investigated children's attitudes to bullying has found that the majority of children display anti-bullying attitudes. However, a small minority of children do appear to admire the bully and lack sympathy for victims of bullying. The just world belief theory has received a great deal of attention in recent years with evidence emerging in support of a two-dimensional model distinguishing between beliefs in a just world (BJW) for self and BJW for others. BJW-self… Expand