Developing wellbeing through a randomised controlled trial of a martial arts based intervention: An alternative to the anti-bullying approach
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Woodcock, Stuart
Dudley, Dean
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Smith, Peter
Bauman, Sheri
Wong, Dennis
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Anti-bullying policies and interventions are the main approach addressing bullying behaviours in Australian schools. However, the evidence supporting these approaches is inconsistent and its theoretical underpinning may be problematic. The current study examined the effects of a martial arts based psycho-social intervention on participants’ ratings of resilience and self-efficacy, delivered as a randomised controlled trial to 283 secondary school students. Results found a consistent pattern for strengths-based wellbeing outcomes. All measures relating to resilience and self-efficacy improved for the intervention group, whereas results declined for the control group. These findings suggest that a martial arts based psycho-social intervention may be an efficacious method of improving wellbeing outcomes including resilience and self-efficacy. The study proposes utilising alternatives to the anti-bullying approach and that interventions should be aimed towards helping individuals develop strengths and cope more effectively, which has specific relevance to bullying and more generalised importance to positive mental health.
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Interventions to Reduce Bullying and Cyberbullying
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© 2019 The Author(s). This is an Open Access chapter distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
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This is a reprint of an article from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601) from 2018 to 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special issues/bullying cyberbullying).
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Moore, B; Woodcock, S; Dudley, D, Developing wellbeing through a randomised controlled trial of a martial arts based intervention: An alternative to the anti-bullying approach, Interventions to Reduce Bullying and Cyberbullying, 2019, pp. 140-157