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Investigate the relationship between adolescents' moral identity, perspective-taking skills, and their defending behavior against ethnic victimization while considering teacher responses.

March 21, 2026Journal of AdolescenceOpen Access

Standing Up or Standing By: The Interplay of Moral Identity, Perspective‐Taking Skills, and Teacher Responses in Adolescents' Responses to Ethnic Victimization

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SÖSevgi Bayram ÖzdemirÖrebro University

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Examines how moral identity and perspective-taking influence defending behavior in adolescents, highlighting teacher roles.

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Investigate the relationship between adolescents' moral identity, perspective-taking skills, and their defending behavior against ethnic victimization while considering teacher responses.
Sample included 792 adolescents with an average age of 16.47 in Sweden.
Measured moral identity and perspective-taking skills.
Assessed adolescents' willingness to defend peers during ethnic victimization incidents.
Evaluated teacher responses to incidents of ethnic victimization.
Stronger perspective-taking skills and higher moral identity correlated with increased defending behavior.
Teacher intervention strengthened the association between perspective-taking and defending behavior.
When teachers were perceived as indifferent, the link between perspective-taking and defending behavior weakened.

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Sevgi Bayram Özdemir (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69be35946e48c4981c673f99 https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.70139

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