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Programme at a glance
The programme for Day 3 of the EADP Summer Tour is structured as follows:
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Opening |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Keynote I David Smahel, Masaryk University, Czech Republic: Online risks for children and adolescents in Europe: The developmental perspective |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Symposia (parallel sessions): Intervention, Early childhood, Bullying & migration, Adults, and Ethnic bullying |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Poster session and thematic sessions (parallel sessions): Protective & risk factors for bullying, Parents, Intervention, Moral & socio-emotional competence, and Ethnic bullying & national contexts |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Keynote II: Robert Thornberg, Linköping University, Sweden: Moral disengagement and bullying among children and adolescents |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Symposia (parallel sessions): Early childhood, Bystanders, Morality, Teachers, and Bias based bullying |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | Special event: Preyer Awardee Keynote |
| End of scientific programme | |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | ECDP 2023 Reception |
Programme – in detail
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Log in and technical matters |
| Time / Room | Plenary session |
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| White | |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Opening With greetings of the Rector of University of Stavanger and the Director of the Norwegian Centre of Learning Environment and research in Education, and the EADP President |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Keynote I David Smahel, Masaryk University, Czech Republic: Online risks for children and adolescents in Europe: The developmental perspective Read more about the keynote speaker |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Parallel sessions |
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| Room: | |
| White | Invited Symposium 1: Intervention Title: Inter-individual differences in the antibullying intervention response Chair: Annalaura Nocentini, University of Florence Presenters: * Eerika Johander, Jessica Trach, Tiina Turunen, Claire Garandeau, Christina Salmivalli * Elisabeth Stefanek, Dagmar Strohmeier, & Takuya Yanagida * Annalaura Nocentini, Benedetta Emanuela Palladino, Ersilia Menesini * Tessa ML Kaufman Read more about the chair |
| Yellow | Symposium 1: Early childhood Title: Well-being, harassment and bullying in Norwegian ECEC-institutions – what we know and what we can do Chair: Thomas Moser, University of Stavanger Presenters: * Karin van Trijp, Ratib Lekhal, May Britt Drugli, Veslemøy Rydland, Suzanne van Gils, Elisabet Solheim Buøen * Monica Seland, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Børge Moe * Ingrid Midteide Løkken, Tone Rove Nilsen, Helene Marie Storli Aaseth, Thomas Moser, Ellen Elvethon Discussant: Thomas Moser, University of Stavanger |
| Green | Symposium 2: Bullying & Migration Title: Bullying, diversity, and inclusion of newly arrived migrant students: analysing national and school-level policies and practices for safe and inclusive schools in different countries Chairs: Hildegunn Fandrem, University of Stavanger & Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, University of Duisburg-Essen Presenters: * Amalee Meehan, Glorianne Borg Axisa, Silvia de Almeida, Barbara Bäckström,Nathanaël Friant, Øystein Lund Johannesen, Monica Roman * Muthanna Samara, Peter K. Smith, Jacinta Francis, Adeem Massarwa, Carmel Cefai, Gabriella Kulcsar, Marijana Markovikj * Maritta Välimäki, Niamh O’Brien, Kirsi Hipp, Faye Acton, Alexandru Gradinaru, Angelika Echsel, Elisabeth Stefanek, Christina Schulze, Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg Discussant: James O’Higgins Norman, Dublin City University |
| Blue | Symposium 3: Adults Title: Relevant adults' views and role in different types of bullying Chair: Leyla De Amicis, University of Glasgow & Elisa Bisagno, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Presenters: * Leyla De Amicis, Yuqing Xue * Tak Yan Lee, Caroline Cheng * Dario Bacchini, Concetta Esposito, Angelo Fanara, Stefania Prevete |
| Red | Symposium 4: Ethnic bullying Title: Ethnic bullying and victimization in children and adolescents: how contexts and individuals matter Chairs: Ersilia Menesini, University of Florence & Simona Caravita, University of Stavanger Presenters: * Maria Chiara Basilici, Benedetta Emanuela Palladino, Ersilia Menesini * Nicolò Maria Iannello, Marina Camodeca, Carmen Gelati * Noemi Papotti, Simona C.S. Caravita, Giulio G. Valtolina * Sevgi Bayram Özdemir, Takuya Yanagida, Metin Özdemir |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Parallel sessions |
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| Room: | |
| White | Poster Session: Protective & risk factors for bullying Chair: Ingrid Veronika Midteide Løkken, University of Stavanger Presenters: * Mirella Dragone, Concetta Esposito, Grazia De Angelis, Valentina Rea, Paola Alicandro, Ester Nisi, Margherita Murolo, Angela Iannone, Dario Bacchini * Maria Chiara Taiti, Benedetta E. Palladino, Sevgi Bayram Özdemir, Ersilia Menesini * Federica Stefanelli, Maria Grazia Lo Cricchio, Benedetta Emanuela Palladino, Ersilia Menesini * Magdalena Slowik * Viviane Juguero |
| Yellow | Thematic Session 1: Parents Chair: Janne Støen, University of Stavanger Presenters: * Maria Clara Cavallini, Simona C.S. Caravita * Burak Akdeniz, Aysun Dogan, Deniz Tahiroglu, Sibel Kazak Berument, Basak Sahin Acar * Sevgi T. Aytekin, Aysun Dogan, Sibel Kazak Berument, Deniz Tahiroglu, Basak Sahin Acar |
| Green | Thematic Session 2: Intervention Chair: Marina Camodeca Presenters: * Peter K Smith, Susanne Robinson, Robert Slonje, Martha Evans, Nicola Murray, and the Anti-Bullying Alliance * Neeltje van den Bedem, Berna Güroğlu * Klara Øverland |
| Blue | Thematic Session 3: Moral & socio-emotional competence Chair: Johannes N. Finne, University of Stavanger and Elisa Bisagno, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Presenters: * Sophie Strauß, Rebecca Bondü * Maud Hensums, Eddie Brummelman, Helle Larsen, Wouter van den Bos, Geertjan Overbeek * Esperanza Espino, Rosario Del Rey |
| Red | Thematic Session 4: Ethnic bullying & national contexts Chair: Benedetta Palladino Presenters: * Liliia Korol, Pieter Bevelander * Lenka Kollerová, Petr Soukup, Dagmar Strohmeier, Simona C.S. Caravita * Giulio D'Urso, Jennifer Symonds |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Break |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Plenary session |
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| Room: | |
White | Keynote II Robert Thornberg, Linköping University, Sweden: Moral disengagement and bullying among children and adolescents Read more about the keynote speaker Chair: Hildegunn Fandrem |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Parallel sessions |
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| White | Invited Symposium 2: Early childhood Title: Aggression and peer-victimisation in early childhood Chair: Claire Monks, University of Greenwich, UK Presenters: * Cara S. Swit * Kat Kucaba & Claire Monks * Seung-ha Lee Read more about the symposium and the chair |
| Yellow | Symposium 5: Bystanders Title: Children's bystander intervention in different types of bullying Chair: Leyla De Amicis, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Presenters: * Leyla De Amicis * Elisa Bisagno, Veronica Margherita Cocco, Alessia Cadamuro, Gian Antonio Di Bernardo, S. Topputo, N. Sitra, Loris Vezzali Discussant: Dario Bacchini, University of Naples “Federico II” |
| Green | Symposium 6: Morality Title: Moral cognitions and teachers’ professional ethos as key risk factors for bullying Chairs: Simona C.S. Caravita & Hildegunn Fandrem, University of Stavanger Presenters: * Ylva Bjereld, Robert Thornberg * Johannes N. Finne, Simona C.S. Caravita, Hildegunn Fandrem * Concetta Esposito, Eleonora M. Spadari, Simona C. S. Caravita, Dario Bacchini * Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger |
| Blue | Symposium 7: Teachers Title: Teachers’ role in bullying prevention and intervention Chair: van Gils Fleur, KU Leuven, Belgium Presenters: * Danelien van Aalst, Gijs Huitsing, Tim Mainhard, Antonius H.N. Cillessen * Fleur van Gils, Hilde Colpin, Karine Verschueren, Ersilia Menesini, Benedetta Palladino * Eleonora Marucci, Davide Barrera, Beau Oldenburg, Antonius H.N. Cillessen, Marloes Hendrickx, René Veenstra Discussant: Ersilia Menesini, University of Florence |
| Red | Symposium 8: Bias based bullying Title: A developmental intergroup perspective on bystander responses to bias-based bullying and exclusion across three countries Chairs: Seçil Gönültaş, University of Exeter & North Carolina State University, & Adam Rutland, University of Exeter Presenters: * Alaina Brenick, Michelle Miller, Linda C. Halgunseth * Ayşe Şule Yüksel, Sally B. Palmer, Adam Rutland * Seçil Gönültaş, Kelly Lynn Mulvey * Eirini K. Argyri, Seçil Gönültaş, Sally B. Palmer, Luke McGuire, Melanie Killen, Adam Rutland |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Break |
| Room: | Plenary session |
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| White | |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | Preyer Awardee Keynote Christina Salmivalli, University of Turku, Finland: Title: Prevention of school bullying: From celebrating success to analyzing failure Read more about the awardee |
| 18:15 – 18:30 | ECDP 2023 Reception |
| 18:30 | End of the conference |
Keynotes and invited symposia
Read more about the keynote speakers and their lectures, and the invited symposia and their chairs.
Keynote speaker I
Professor David Smahel, Czech Republic.
Online risks for children and adolescents in Europe: The developmental perspective
This presentation will introduce the online risks for European children and adolescents and take into account the developmental perspective. The presented results will be based on the data of the EU Kids Online project, which carried out research on children’s and adolescents’ technology usage in 2017-19 in 19 European countries. A representative sample of a minimum of 1,000 children, aged 9 to 17, was collected in each country. The prevalence of the selected online risks will be described in the context of the child and adolescent development. Special attention will be given to four related topics: cyberbullying; cyberhate; exposure to sexual images; and excessive internet use. The differences in the online risks and the related individual and social factors will be analysed. The cross-cultural differences and specifics among countries in online risky behaviour of children and adolescents will be presented.
Short biography
David Smahel, Ph.D., is the Professor at the Faculty of Social Studies and Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He leads the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society (irtis.muni.cz), which researches the social-psychological implications of the internet and technology. His current research focuses on the impact of digital technology on adolescents’ well-being, online risks, online security and human computer interaction (HCI). He is editor of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace (www.cyberpsychology.eu) and he co-authored the books Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development (Springer, 2011) and Digital Technology, Eating Behaviors, and Eating Disorders (Springer, 2018). Smahel has also published in several international journals, such as Developmental Psychology, Information, Communication & Society, Health Communication, European Journal of Developmental Psychology, and others.
Keynote speaker II
Professor Robert Thornberg, Sweden.
Moral Disengagement and Bullying among Children and Adolescents
There is a growing body of research examining child and youth bullying from a moral perspective. In general, children judge bullying as a severe moral transgression by referring to the harm it causes to the victim. Within the social-cognitive theoretical framework, Bandura has introduced the concept of moral disengagement, which might contribute to explain the moral attitude-behavior gap in bullying. Moral disengagement refers to social and psychological maneuvers (e.g., moral justification, euphemistic labeling, diffusion of responsibility, dehumanization, and victim blame) by which self-regulated mechanisms can be deactivated and moral self-sanctions can be disengaged that, in turn, facilitates behaviors that harm others without feelings of remorse or guilt. The keynote will review cross-sectional and longitudinal research on how these social-cognitive distortions through which an individual can justify immoral conduct, thus avoiding feelings of guilt and remorse, are related to bullying perpetration and various bystander behaviors in peer victimization in childhood and adolescence. Research on individual and contextual variables that might mediate the association between moral disengagement and participant roles in bullying will be discussed as well, as recent studies examining moral disengagement as a group-level property.
Short biography
Robert Thornberg, Ph.D., is a Professor at Linköping University in Sweden. His major research interests focus on moral and social processes of school bullying, including individual and collective moral disengagement, self-efficacy and collective efficacy, student–teacher relationship quality, classroom climate, and bystander behaviors in peer victimization. He has been a member of the scientific committee of the World Anti-Bullying Forum (WABF) since 2016.
Invited symposium 1
Professor Annalaura Nocentini, Italy.
Inter-individual differences in the antibullying intervention response
After an initial attention on the global efficacy of antibullying interventions, in the last decade scholars have made an effort on understanding what is effective in the real context and which are the most effective components of a program (Gaffney, Ttofi, Farrington, 2021). However, until now only few studies have addressed the complementary question of “for whom” the antibullying interventions work, and, specifically why some children and adolescents seem not to benefit of the intervention. Identifying and understanding who do not respond to universal antibullying interventions, being them victims, bullies or defenders, is an important issue for tailoring selective and indicated programs able to meet the needs of all the children and adolescents. The symposium aims to gather and update the most recent findings on the inter-individual differences in antibullying intervention responsiveness focusing on three main dimensions: 1) to analyze the resistance to the intervention by different participant roles (bullies, victims, defenders and bully-victims); 2) to test the role of moderators of this resistance related to individual (i.e. environmental sensitivity, empathy, anxiety) and contextual factors (i.e. peer and parents rejection); 3) to test these effects manipulating the environment through different interventions. The discussion will address the implication of a “response-to-intervention framework” for the definition of a multitiered system of support providing a full continuum of supportive and effective interventions.
Short biography
Annalaura Nocentini is Professor at the University of Florence, Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology. She obtained her MA (2003) at the University of Florence and the PhD (2008) at the University of Rome. Her research activity is focused on aggressive behavior during development, deepening the processes of continuity and discontinuity across typical and atypical development. Her research topics include the study of bullying and cyberbullying using an individual by context perspective and the evaluation of the effectiveness of anti-bullying interventions (Notrap!, KiVa). More recently, new lines of investigation concern the role of childhood neglect on young adults’ developmental trajectories, the evaluation of effectiveness of clinical treatments for Conduct Disorders, and the study of how personal characteristics (environmental sensitivity and temperament) moderate the effectiveness of antibullying interventions.
Invited symposium 2
Professor Claire P. Monks, UK.
Aggression and peer-victimisation in early childhood
This symposium brings together three papers on aggression and peer-victimisation in early childhood from three different continents; Oceania, Europe and Asia. There is a growing body of literature which confirms that some children behave aggressively towards others during their early peer interactions. The first paper in this symposium is by Swit from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Swit examines the association between social cognition and behaviour in early childhood. She reports on the findings of research with 3-5 year olds examining the association between children’s views of relational and physical aggression and prosocial behaviours and their engagement in these behaviours. The second paper is by Kucaba and Monks from the University of Greenwich in the UK. This paper looks at the role of the peer group in aggressive behaviour, examining peer-relations and friendships in relation to involvement in peer-victimisation during early childhood. The final paper is by Lee from Chung-ang University in South Korea. Lee reports on the development of an age-appropriate anti-bullying programme for kindergartners and the evaluation of the programme in a South Korean kindergarten. All of the papers note the importance of using age-appropriate methods when working with young children, describing innovative methodologies, including the use of cartoons, animations, Duplo, games and stortytelling. Each of the papers in this symposium highlights the need for work to focus attention on understanding aggressive and prosocial behaviour among young children and the importance of age-appropriate programmes with young children, which appear to have promising effects in supporting children’s positive behaviour.
Short biography
Claire P. Monks gained her doctorate at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Greenwich in London, UK, where she is Deputy Head of the School of Human Sciences and the Head of the Centre for Vulnerable Children, Young People and Families. Her research focuses on the development of aggression and peer-victimisation, with a particular interest in peer-victimisation during early childhood.
Preyer Awardee Keynote
Professor Christina Salmivalli, Finland.
Prevention of school bullying: from celebrating success to analyzing failure
During four decades, numerous school-based bullying prevention programs have been developed and evaluated. Meta-analyses (e.g., Gaffney et al., 2019; Ttofi & Farrington, 2011) indicate that such programs have positive average effects, as compared with treatment as usual. However, the effects are small to moderate, and they are especially weak among some specific groups, such as adolescents. After all positive outcomes and progress that has been made, too many young people still suffer from being bullied. Furthermore, findings suggest that when the overall level of victimization decreases, the ”remaining victims” may be even worse off than before – the phenomenon known as the Healthy Context Paradox (Garandeau & Salmivalli, 2019). I suggest that we should shift the focus from average program effects to the characteristics and conditions of youth who remain victimized or continue bullying others despite targeted interventions, and present our current efforts, in the context of ERC-AdG project CHALLENGE (https://sites.utu.fi/challenge/en/), to do so.
Short biography
Christina Salmivalli is a professor of psychology and the deputy head of the INVEST flagship research center at the University of Turku, Finland. She has done research on school bullying and its evidence-based prevention for three decades. Her team developed the KiVa(r) antibullying program, which is implemented in large scale in Finland and beyond. Salmivalli has published widely on children's peer relations and bullying. In 2020, she was a recipient the European Research Council's (ERC) Advanced Grant for a 5-year project to study the most challenging cases of bullying.
