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24-11-2020 | Empirical Research

“I Felt Like a Hero:” Adolescents’ Understanding of Resolution-Promoting and Vengeful Actions on Behalf of Their Peers

Auteurs: Karin S. Frey, Kristina L. McDonald, Adaurennaya C. Onyewuenyi, Kaleb Germinaro, Brendan R. Eagan

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 3/2021

Abstract

Bystander intervention on behalf of victims of peer aggression is credited with reducing victimization, yet little is known about how bystanders evaluate their intervention efforts. African-, European-, Mexican-, and Native-American adolescents (N = 266) between 13 and 18 years (M_age = 15.0, 54% female) recounted vengeful and peaceful responses to a peer’s victimization. For comparison, they also described acts of personal revenge. Youth’s explanations of how they evaluated each action were coded for goals and outcomes. Befitting its moral complexity, self-evaluative rationales for third-party revenge cited more goals than the other two conditions. References to benevolence and lack thereof were more frequent after third-party revenge compared to personal revenge. Concerns that security was compromised and that actions contradicted self-direction were high after both types of revenge. Third-party resolution promoted benevolence, competence, self-direction, and security more than third-party revenge. Epistemic network analyses and thematic excerpts revealed the centrality of benevolence goals in adolescents’ self-evaluative thinking. Self-focused and identity-relevant goals were cited in concert with benevolence after third-party intervention.

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Titel: “I Felt Like a Hero:” Adolescents’ Understanding of Resolution-Promoting and Vengeful Actions on Behalf of Their Peers
Auteurs: Karin S. Frey
Kristina L. McDonald
Adaurennaya C. Onyewuenyi
Kaleb Germinaro
Brendan R. Eagan
Publicatiedatum: 24-11-2020
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 3/2021
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01346-3

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