To Intervene or Not to Intervene? Unpacking Youths’ Reasoning About Cyber Bystander Intervention

• In Event: "Empowering Youth With Moral Education" SIG 67: Moral Development and Education, Paper Session

Abstract

Youth with disabilities are overrepresented in the bullying dynamic and experience poor mental health and academic outcomes associated with this involvement. However, limited existing research has looked at how youth with disabilities make decisions about bullying involvement and bystander intervention. This study examined how students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD)think about cyber bystander intervention. Drawing on mixed methods analyses of clinical interviews (N=78), this dissertation research garnered an understanding of how these youth reason and make decisions about cyberbullying involvement and bystander intervention.

Author

• Sarah Kiran Manchanda, California State University - Los Angeles