20.500.12556/DKUM-99885 Classroom ethnic diversity and bullying exploring the role of students’ ethnicity and classroom moral disengagement This study investigated how classroom ethnic diversity, students’ ethnicity, andclassroom moral disengagement (MD) interact to predict students’ bullying involvement. The sample consisted of 6391 students (50.2% boys, 87.6% ethnic majoritystudents, mean age 13.43 years) from 329 classrooms. Using a multilevel modellingapproach, we found that individual and classroom-level MD were strong predictorsof bullying perpetration and victimization. Higher ethnic diversity was associatedwith increased bullying perpetration among ethnic minority/mixed students, butnot among ethnic majority students. In addition, the positive association betweenethnic diversity and bullying perpetration among minority/mixed students waspresent only in classrooms characterized by high MD, while in classrooms withlow MD, ethnic diversity was unrelated to bullying perpetration for both groups. Forvictimization, classroom MD was more strongly associated with higher victimizationin ethnically diverse classrooms than in more homogeneous classrooms, althoughthe association remained significant across both contexts. The study contributes tothe limited body of research investigating the moderating role of classroom climatevariables in the relationship between classroom ethnic diversity and bullying andhighlights the relevance of MD in shaping peer dynamics in ethnically diverseclassrooms. Practical implications include the potential of interventions targetingMD to foster inclusive, low-conflict classroom environments. classroom ethnic diversity bullying classroom moral desengagement etnična raznolikost razreda medvrstniško nasilje moralna nezavzetost oddelka true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2026-08-28 13:39:39 2026-08-28 13:39:40 2026-08-29 03:10:20 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 str. 409-429 no. 4 Vol. 23 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-05-12 37.015 280669443 10.1080/17405629.2026.2671277 1740-5610 RAZ_Lampret_Ana_2026.pdf RAZ_Lampret_Ana_2026.pdf 1 3D35669BC75426A3E736AEAE1B02EBED 400953e9a1ff98036d84e7797276818d6863a00261338c9b071a9ce1436eeff0 f870911f-a2d6-11f1-8903-00155d0001be https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=210858 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2026.2671277 1 287bf205-a2d5-11f1-8903-00155d0001be https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=210848 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0