Moral Disengagement and Fear of Retaliation: Why Adolescents Choose to be Passive Bystanders to School Bullying
This study examines the potential overlap between fear of retaliation and moral disengagement as explanations for peer bystander inaction in school bullying. Although typically seen as distinct barriers to peer intervention, the study investigates whether fear of retaliation can function as a moral disengagement mechanism, and whether fear-based and disengagement-based justifications are empirical
