Description du projet
Comprendre les mécanismes profonds du harcèlement
Le harcèlement scolaire est un phénomène insidieux qui peut prendre de multiples formes: verbal, physique et indirect (par exemple, l’exclusion des groupes sociaux). Lorsqu’il persiste, le harcèlement constitue l’une des pires expériences à laquelle un enfant peut se trouver confronté. Les nombreuses tentatives et initiatives visant à prévenir ce type d’agression en milieu scolaire n’ont pas toujours été couronnées de succès. Cela est principalement dû au manque de recherches et de connaissances concernant les mécanismes profonds du phénomène dans chaque cas. Le projet CHALLENGE, financé par l’UE, mènera des recherches impliquant des études longitudinales, des configurations expérimentales et l’utilisation de la génétique moléculaire afin d’expliquer les cas de harcèlement persistants, et de comprendre les raisons des échecs des interventions en la matière. Cela permettra de créer de modèles opérationnels innovants pour concevoir des interventions efficaces et sur mesure dans divers cas de harcèlement persistant.
Objectif
Bullying in schools is widespread, with adverse effects on youth and high costs for societies. Research on bullying prevention has so far focused on average effects of anti-bullying programs and mainly concerned universal, preventive measures. While important, this has overshadowed attempts to uncover how exactly school personnel intervene in particular bullying cases and when and why that fails. CHALLENGE will open up new research horizons by shifting the focus from average program effects to the characteristics and conditions of youth who remain victimized or continue bullying despite targeted interventions. The next big questions in the field are tackled in four work packages:
WP1 uncovers the key features of persistent bullying, such as the extent to which it is due to school-level factors or rather varies across bullying cases (within schools).
WP2 elucidates the plight of persistent victims by testing why victimized youth are most maladjusted in contexts where the overall level of victimization is decreasing (healthy context paradox, Garandeau & Salmivalli, 2019).
WP3 tests the efficacy of different targeted interventions in real-life conditions, uncovering challenge factors that increase the risk of a bullying case remaining unresolved. Moreover, it tests how youth characteristics affect their cognitive, emotional and motivational responses to different interventions.
WP4 utilizes molecular genetics to test genetic susceptibility to intervention effects at the individual level.
CHALLENGE uses quantitative, qualitative, and DNA analyses, combines longitudinal and experimental designs, and harnesses novel tools to collect real-time intervention data and to register children’s responses to interventions. It bridges the perspectives of developmental and social psychology, child psychiatry, and genetics, builds theory on persistent bullying and enables the development of tailored measures for specific target groups where available interventions have failed
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitution d’accueil
20014 Turku
Finlande