Herbert Scheithauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1494639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herbert Scheithauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheithauer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEITHAUER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5915-7593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Digital Naïves” – The Development of Critical Digital Literacy in Early Childhood: A Scoping Literature Review
Critical Digital Literacy (CDL) extends basic digital competence to the ability to critically evaluate and engage with digital media's social and ethical dimensions. This scoping review targeted CDL theory and interventions in early childhood, applying PRISMA-ScR and JBI methods; database searches produced twenty-five studies, analyzed descriptively and using thematic analysis approach. The literature displays varied definitions, few age-specific…
Effects of an Early Childhood Education and Care Prevention Program on Infant-Toddler Teacher Attributes: First Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Findings: After structural and process features of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) quality were comprehensively studied in the past, recent research also included childcare teachers’ personal resources, knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs that may affect teacher-child interactions. The present randomized controlled trial aimed to investigate the effects of a universal preventive intervention program developed to promote attachmen…
The Development of a Multi-Dimensional Coding System to Categorise Negative Online Experiences Including Cyberbullying Behaviors Among Adolescents with Lower Socioeconomic Status
This original paper, based on data from the Erasmus+Blurred Lives Project, presents a new multi-dimensional categorisation model to describe negative online experiences, including forms of cyberbullying, based on a study of internet usage among over N = 2,500 adolescents with lower socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds across five European countries. The paper first sets out the rationale for the development of a new coding system, before descr…
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses
In this paper, developmental and biographical issues in individual biographical pathways of radicalization are examined from birth through to conviction for Islamist terrorism-related offenses. The source of data was court files of forty-five homegrown Germans convicted of Islamist terrorism-related offenses (age range at the time of the crime: 15 to 38; mean: 24 years, SD: 5; 4 female convicts). Using coding and constant case comparison techniqu…
Lern- und Verhaltensschwierigkeiten in der Schule: Erscheinungsformen - Entwicklungsmodelle - Implikationen für die Praxis
SchülerInnen mit Lernschwierigkeiten zeigen häufig auch Probleme im Verhalten - und umgekehrt. Für SchülerIinnen und Lehrkräfte sind solche gleichzeitig auftretende Phänomene eine große Herausforderung, die mit Fragen zur gezielten Unterstützung dieser Zielgruppe einhergeht. Das Buch fokussiert das Phänomen gleichzeitig auftretender Lern- und Verhaltensschwierigkeiten in der Schule mit dem Ziel, Grundlagen- und Handlungswissen zu dem Thema zu ver…
Internet Use and Perceived Parental Involvement among Adolescents from Lower Socioeconomic Groups in Europe: An Exploration
Internet usage is a salient developmental factor in adolescents' lives. Although relevant correlates of Internet use have been documented earlier, there is a lack of information on lower socioeconomic status groups. This is important, as these adolescents have increased risk of negative online experiences. The current survey aimed to explore Internet use and parental involvement amongst adolescents from areas of socio-economic disadvantage in 30 …
Developmentally Appropriate Prevention of Behavioral and Emotional Problems, Social-Emotional Learning, and Developmentally Appropriate Practice for Early Childhood Education and Care – The Papilio Ap…
This thematic section editorial gives an overview of the three related articles introducing the programs Papilio-3to6, Papilio-U3, and Papilio-6to9. The essential, connecting elements are presented (developmentally appropriate prevention, social-emotional learning [SEL], and developmentally appropriate practice) and the relation between the three programs is explained in the context of an overarching educational approach from 0 to 9 to early chil…
Barriers, resources, and attitudes towards (cyber-)bullying prevention/intervention in schools from the perspective of school staff: Results from focus group discussions
Developmentally Appropriate Prevention of Behavior and Emotional Problems and Fostering of Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary School – Overview of Program Theory and Measures of the Preventive …
Children face increased demands for interpersonal as well as learning-related social skills, especially by the vulnerable stage of school entry, due to the more structured setting, new academic requirements, and the fact that children are supposed to interact successfully within a larger and heterogeneous peer group. Although a plethora of social-emotional learning (SEL) programs for elementary school students have been developed, there is a lack…
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Preventive Intervention Program to Foster Social-Emotional Development and Attachment Security of Toddlers in Early Childhood Education and Care: The Papili…
Due to an increasing number of children under the age of three attending early childhood education and care (ECEC), there is an increasing need for high-quality care settings. In addition to primary caregivers, ECEC teachers are important socializers of children’s emotional development and may become children’s attachment figures. Early preventive interventions bear the potential to reduce the risk for later maladaptive development in the social-…
Developmentally Appropriate Prevention of Behavioral and Emotional Problems, Social-Emotional Learning, and Developmentally Appropriate Practice for Early Childhood Education and Care: The Papilio-3to…
The development of social-emotional skills is crucial in early childhood. Behavior problems in early childhood are risk factors for difficulties throughout childhood and adolescence and beyond. Considering the importance of developing social and emotional skills during early childhood, this study introduced the Papilio-3to6 program into everyday early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Germany. The program combines measures of developmentally…
Co-occurrence, stability and manifestation of child and adolescent mental health problems: A latent transition analysis
Results highlight the need for early prevention of mental health problems to avoid accumulation and manifestation in the transition to adolescence and young adulthood
Stay Safe and Strong: Characteristics, Roles and Emotions of Student-Produced Comics Related to Cyberbullying
The present study aimed at giving voice to students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds using a co-participatory approach. Participants were 59 adolescents (52.5% males) aged between 14 and 16 from five European countries who created ten comics to illustrate cyberbullying for a broader audience of peers. We analyzed texts and images according to four primary themes: cyberbullying episodes (types, platforms, co-occurrence with bullying),…
Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Children’s Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (CRSQ)
Rejection Sensitivity (RS) is defined as the disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and overreact to social rejection cues. Aim of the two studies presented in this paper was to develop and administer an instrument to assess RS in a German sample of healthy (pre)adolescents as well as in a clinical sample. The English Children’s Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (CRSQ) was translated, adapted, and presented to a non-clinical sample …
A hermeneutic phenomenological study of students' and school counsellors' “lived experiences” of cyberbullying and bullying
The association between in‐class cultural diversity with empathy and bullying in adolescence: A multilevel mediation analysis
Little is known about the associations between cultural class composition, teacher support for diversity (TSD), cognitive and affective empathy, and bullying and victimisation. Research shows that empathy is negatively associated with bullying and victimisation; and support for diversity and classroom cultural diversity are positively linked to social skills. The present study examines whether cultural diversity and perceived TSD are protective f…
Student Crisis Prevention in Schools: The Networks Against School Shootings Program (Netwass) – An Approach Suitable for the Prevention of Violent Extremism
The standardized, indicated school-based prevention program “Networks Against School Shootings” (NETWASS) combines a threat assessment approach with a general model of prevention of emergency situations in schools through early intervention in studen
Preventive interventions for children in organized team sport tackling aggression: Results from the pilot evaluation of “Fairplayer.Sport”
Current reviews revealed that there is a lack of effective programs and valuable effectiveness studies related to prevention of aggressive behavior and fostering of social competence in early adolescents participating in organized team sports (e.g., ball sports, such as soccer). Using a randomized controlled design, the present pilot study presents first results regarding the effectiveness of the preventive intervention program "Fairplayer.Sport"…
Manifesto for new directions in developmental science
Although developmental science has always been evolving, these times of fast-paced and profound social and scientific changes easily lead to disorienting fragmentation rather than coherent scientific advances. What directions should developmental science pursue to meaningfully address real-world problems that impact human development throughout the lifespan? What conceptual or policy shifts are needed to steer the field in these directions? The p…
Assessing Implementation Fidelity of a School-Based Crisis Prevention Program with an Ex-Post-Facto Design: The Netwass FOI Assessment System
This research paper presents an operationalization procedure for measuring fidelity of implementation (FOI) of a school-based crisis prevention program. The implementation literature recommends that program developers specify core components of an intervention that are directly related to a program’s theory of change and need to be implemented with high FOI. This approach allows stakeholders some flexibility to adapt a program to individual circu…
Do Stereotypes of Mental and Developmental Disorders Predict Bystander Intentions in Cyberbullying? An Application of the Stereotype Content Model
It was investigated whether different types of mental or developmental disorders (MDD) would be rated differently in terms of stereotypic perceptions and behavioral tendencies and whether these effects of stereotypes on behaviors would be mediated vi
Antisocial Behaviour and Violent Delinquency Among Boys with a Migration Background: A German Panel Study
Immigrant boys show higher rates of antisocial behaviour. However, results of previous studies showed some contradictory findings in terms of intercultural differences in antisocial behaviour. In our study, we used an intercultural comparison of anti
Who is involved in cyberbullying? Latent class analysis of cyberbullying roles and their associations with aggression, self-esteem, and empathy
The present analyses empirically explored the roles in cyberbullying by using Latent Class Analysis. Potential predictors of class membership were also examined using multinomial logistic regression analysis. Participants were 849 German students (52.7% girls, 45.6% boys, Mage = 13.4 years, SDage = 1.1 years). Observed indicators of latent class measured own involvement in cyberbullying, reactions to cyberbullying of classmates, and behavioral wi…
Association of Self-Presentational Strategies on Facebook and Positive Feedback in Adolescence – A Two-Study Approach
As Facebook enables adolescents to present themselves positively by means of their Facebook profile and to gain positive feedback for doing so, the aim of the current study is to investigate which kinds of adolescents’ positive self-presentation in profile pictures and status updates are associated with positive feedback in terms of Likes from the Facebook community, considering gender differences. Data for this study were based on adolescents ag…
Same but Different? Developmental Pathways to Demonstrative Targeted Attacks — Qualitative Case Analyses of Adolescent and Young Adult Perpetrators of Targeted School Attacks and Jihadi Terrorist Atta…
Analysis of incidents over the past ten years in Germany reveals that the boundaries between targeted attacks in schools and terrorist attacks are starting to blur. Böckler, Leuschner, Roth, Zick, and Scheithauer (2018) recently presented a set of hypotheses about similarities between the developmental pathways of school attackers and lone actor terrorists. To date there is only a small body of empirical research comparing these two forms of targ…
Physical, verbal, and relational forms of bullying among German students: Age trends, gender differences, and correlates
A revised version of the Bully/Victim Questionnaire [Olweus, 1991] was given to 2,086 fifth–tenth grader students from schools in two German federal states. The results were analysed in terms of frequencies of self-reports of different forms of bullying (physical, verbal, relational/indirect; for bullies and for victims), gender and grade differences. Overall, 12.1% of the students reported bullying others and 11.1% reported being bullied (victim…
Feeling cybervictims’ pain—The effect of empathy training on cyberbullying
As the world's population increasingly relies on the use of modern technology, cyberbullying becomes an omnipresent risk for children and adolescents and demands counteraction to prevent negative (online) experiences. The classroom-based German preventive intervention "Medienhelden" (engl.: "Media Heroes") builds on previous knowledge about links between cognitive empathy, affective empathy, and cyberbullying, among others. For an evaluation stud…
Social influence and bullying behavior: Intervention‐based network dynamics of the fairplayer.manual bullying prevention program
Bullying is a social phenomenon and although preventive interventions consequently address social mechanisms, evaluations hardly consider the complexity of peer processes. Therefore, the present study analyzes the efficacy of the fairplayer.manual bullying prevention program from a social network perspective. Within a pretest-posttest control group design, longitudinal data were available from 328 middle-school students (MAge = 13.7 years; 51% gi…
Inklusion: Eine Kritik
Die schulische Inklusion ist heute ein allseits akzeptiertes Ziel. Ein Mehr an Gemeinsamkeit von Kindern mit und ohne Behinderung kann nur begrüßt werden. Allerdings bleiben in der Inklusionsdebatte viele der anstehenden Fragen ungeklärt, darunter auch solche grundsätzlicher Art. Sie beziehen sich auf das Fernziel einer inklusiven> Gesellschaft, das weitreichende Versprechen einer neuen Bildungsgerechtigkeit und gewagte pädagogische Konzepte, die…
Barriers, resources, and attitudes towards (cyber-)bullying prevention/intervention in schools from the perspective of school staff: Results from focus group discussions
Effects of the cyberbullying prevention program media heroes ( Medienhelden ) on traditional bullying
There is considerable debate over whether cyberbullying is just another form of bullying, or whether it is a problem distinct enough to require specific intervention. One way to explore this issue is to analyze whether programs designed to prevent traditional bullying help prevent cyberbullying, and whether programs designed to prevent cyberbullying prevent traditional bullying. The main goal of the current study was to analyze the spillover effe…
Mobbing an Schulen: Erkennen - Handeln - Vorbeugen
Mobbing an Schulen ist ein sehr altes Phänomen, das existiert, seitdem es die Institution Schule gibt. Heute wird Mobbing nicht mehr als "Randerscheinung des Erwachsenwerdens" bagatellisiert, sondern als nicht tolerierbares soziales Fehlverhalten betrachtet. Das Buch beginnt mit einem ausführlichen Einblick in die Mobbing-Forschung, u. a. zu Merkmalen und Erscheinungsformen von Mobbing. Darüber hinaus werden Ursachen und Folgen von Mobbing, aber …
Entwicklungswissenschaft
Physical, verbal, and relational forms of bullying among German students: Age trends, gender differences, and correlates
A revised version of the Bully/Victim Questionnaire [Olweus, 1991] was given to 2,086 fifth–tenth grader students from schools in two German federal states. The results were analysed in terms of frequencies of self-reports of different forms of bullying (physical, verbal, relational/indirect; for bullies and for victims), gender and grade differences. Overall, 12.1% of the students reported bullying others and 11.1% reported being bullied (victim…
The European Journal of Developmental Science—And: Developmental Science—A New Discipline or “Old Wine in New Bottles”
To See an Elephant: Developmental Science
The aim of Developmental Science is to understand the complex interacting biopsychosocial mechanisms in the development of living organisms. Thus, Developmental Science has roots in both the biological and social disciplines and can bee seen as a meta-theory rooted in developmental principles to guide work and thinking on biology and social behaviour and their interactions over ontogeny. In this article, we depict the entwined core-elements of De…
Gender and Age Differences in the Development of Relational/Indirect Aggression: First Results of a Meta-Analysis
It has been suggested in many studies and reviews that the form of aggressive behaviour displayed differs between the two genders. Studies that take on a developmental focus argue that the prevalence of aggression in general and relational/indirect a
Problemverhalten und Gewalt im Jugendalter: Erscheinungsformen, Entstehungsbedingungen, Prävention und Intervention
Jugendliche sehen sich mit zahlreichen Entwicklungsaufgaben konfrontiert. Neben spezifischen Risiken im Jugendalter erschweren auch Problemlagen aus dem Kindesalter eine Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Entwicklungsanforderungen. Einige Jugendliche entwickeln in Folge ein Problemverhalten (z. B. Gewalt/Bullying, Happy Slapping, Delinquenz, Substanzmissbrauch, exzessiven Medienkonsum) oder tauchen in extreme Jugendkulturen ein. Autoren aus unterschie…
School-based Prevention of Bullying and Relational Aggression: The fairplayer.manual
The fairplayer.manual is a manualized, school-based intervention program to prevent bullying and relational aggression. We present first results from an evaluation study conducted in Berlin (Germany) with 119 students (age 14-17) from a comprehensive
Developmentally Appropriate Prevention of Aggression – Developmental Science as an Integrative Framework
Cyberbullying: Labels, Behaviours and Definition in Three European Countries
This study aims to examine students' perception of the term used to label cyberbullying, the perception of different forms and behaviours (written, verbal, visual, exclusion and impersonation) and the perception of the criteria used for its definition (imbalance of power, intention, repetition, anonymity and publicity) in three different European countries: Italy, Spain and Germany. Seventy adolescents took part in nine focus groups, using the sa…
Cyberbullying Definition Among Adolescents: A Comparison Across Six European Countries
Several criteria have been proposed for defining cyberbullying to young people, but no studies have proved their relevance. There are also variations across different countries in the meaning and the definition of this behavior. We systematically investigated the role of five definitional criteria for cyberbullying, in six European countries. These criteria (intentionality, imbalance of power, repetition, anonymity, and public vs. private) were c…
Is Cyberbullying Related to Lack of Empathy and Social-Emotional Problems
Examination of the longitudinal relationship between empathy, social-emotional problems and cyberbullying is still rare and the present study is one of very few. The present study assessed whether low scores of affective and cognitive empathy at wave 1 (t1) can predict involvement in cyberbullying five months later (t2). Furthermore, it was examined whether involvement in cyberbullying at t1 predicts psychopathological symptoms and social withdra…
Social influence and bullying behavior: Intervention‐based network dynamics of the fairplayer.manual bullying prevention program
Bullying is a social phenomenon and although preventive interventions consequently address social mechanisms, evaluations hardly consider the complexity of peer processes. Therefore, the present study analyzes the efficacy of the fairplayer.manual bullying prevention program from a social network perspective. Within a pretest-posttest control group design, longitudinal data were available from 328 middle-school students (MAge = 13.7 years; 51% gi…
Inklusion: Eine Kritik
Die schulische Inklusion ist heute ein allseits akzeptiertes Ziel. Ein Mehr an Gemeinsamkeit von Kindern mit und ohne Behinderung kann nur begrüßt werden. Allerdings bleiben in der Inklusionsdebatte viele der anstehenden Fragen ungeklärt, darunter auch solche grundsätzlicher Art. Sie beziehen sich auf das Fernziel einer inklusiven> Gesellschaft, das weitreichende Versprechen einer neuen Bildungsgerechtigkeit und gewagte pädagogische Konzepte, die…
Structural validation and cross-cultural robustness of the European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionnaire
Adolescent Self-Presentation on Facebook and its Impact on Self-Esteem
A considerable body of research has examined the association between self-presentation on social networking sites and personality in adults. Yet, there is a lack of corresponding research on adolescents as well as studies on alternative measures of personality traits of the self. The current study investigates, using a cross-sectional multi-method approach, whether adolescents present themselves according to their self-concept on Facebook, using …
ADHS und Schule: Grundlagen, Unterrichtsgestaltung, Kooperation und Intervention
Aufmerksamkeits- und Hyperaktivitätsstörungen (ADHS) zählen zu den häufigsten Verhaltensstörungen des Kindes- und Jugendalters (ca. 5-7 %). Neben Lern- und Leistungsschwierigkeiten kann dadurch vor allem die Interaktion mit Gleichaltrigen und Erwachsenen problematisch sein. Lehrkräfte und Eltern sind somit beim Vorliegen einer ADHS besonders herausgefordert. Das Buch liefert auf der Grundlage klinisch-entwicklungspsychologischer und (sonder-)päda…
Cultural Issues in Bullying and Cyberbullying among Children and Adolescents: Methodological Approaches for Comparative Research
Bullying, including cyberbullying, is an internationally recognized form of problematic behavior that can have serious and long-lasting consequences for all individuals involved. Correlations between bullying and cyberbullying, and psychiatric, psychosomatic, and physical health issues, suicide ideation, and suicide have emerged in empirical research. Although there are important differences by cultural context, we can assume that forms of bullyi…
Feeling cybervictims’ pain—The effect of empathy training on cyberbullying
As the world's population increasingly relies on the use of modern technology, cyberbullying becomes an omnipresent risk for children and adolescents and demands counteraction to prevent negative (online) experiences. The classroom-based German preventive intervention "Medienhelden" (engl.: "Media Heroes") builds on previous knowledge about links between cognitive empathy, affective empathy, and cyberbullying, among others. For an evaluation stud…
Effects of the cyberbullying prevention program media heroes ( Medienhelden ) on traditional bullying
There is considerable debate over whether cyberbullying is just another form of bullying, or whether it is a problem distinct enough to require specific intervention. One way to explore this issue is to analyze whether programs designed to prevent traditional bullying help prevent cyberbullying, and whether programs designed to prevent cyberbullying prevent traditional bullying. The main goal of the current study was to analyze the spillover effe…
Mobbing an Schulen: Erkennen - Handeln - Vorbeugen
Mobbing an Schulen ist ein sehr altes Phänomen, das existiert, seitdem es die Institution Schule gibt. Heute wird Mobbing nicht mehr als "Randerscheinung des Erwachsenwerdens" bagatellisiert, sondern als nicht tolerierbares soziales Fehlverhalten betrachtet. Das Buch beginnt mit einem ausführlichen Einblick in die Mobbing-Forschung, u. a. zu Merkmalen und Erscheinungsformen von Mobbing. Darüber hinaus werden Ursachen und Folgen von Mobbing, aber …
Inklusion: Eine Kritik
Die schulische Inklusion ist heute ein allseits akzeptiertes Ziel. Ein Mehr an Gemeinsamkeit von Kindern mit und ohne Behinderung kann nur begrüßt werden. Allerdings bleiben in der Inklusionsdebatte viele der anstehenden Fragen ungeklärt, darunter auch solche grundsätzlicher Art. Sie beziehen sich auf das Fernziel einer "inklusiven" Gesellschaft, das weitreichende Versprechen einer neuen Bildungsgerechtigkeit und gewagte pädagogische Konzepte, di…
St “Workshop on Aggression”: Socio-Emotional Programs – Preventing Aggression
The "Workshop on Aggression", a small to medium sized conference for aggression research, has a history that dates back to 1997 and has until now only been hosted by colleagues and institutions from German speaking countries. Keeping with the tradition of previous meetings, the "Workshop on Aggression" aims to bring together international scholars from different disciplines involved in aggression research and provides a forum to present current r…
School-based Prevention of Bullying and Relational Aggression: The fairplayer.manual
In the article by Bull, Schultze, and Scheithauer (2009) the following error occurred on page 313: "43 students attended the long term intervention (IG long , 10 weeks of treatment.manual participation
Towards a More Precise Conceptualization of Empathy: An Integrative Review of Literature on Definitions, Associated Functions, and Developmental Trajectories
Empathy entails basic cognitive processes such as the recognition of facial expressions and basic emotional processes such as emotional contagion, but also higher-order cognitive processes such as abstract reasoning about the other person’s emotional states and higher-order emotional processes such as empathic concern. Thus, empathy must be conceptualized as a multidimensional and multifaceted construct. It can be differentiated from related cons…
Sexuelle Bildung in der Schule: Themenorientierte Einführung und Methoden
Sexualerziehung ist ein eigenständiges Fachgebiet innerhalb schulischer Gesamterziehung; sexuelle Bildung zu organisieren zählt zum schulischen Bildungsauftrag. Dabei geht es zunächst um Informationsvermittlung über körperliche Vorgänge. Sexualerziehung ist darüber hinaus aber immer auch Sozialerziehung. Der Bildungsauftrag der Schule zielt dabei letztlich auf die Förderung und Befähigung zur sexuellen Selbstbestimmung. Das Buch gibt eine kleine …
Psychology (47 works) · Developmental psychology (34 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (24 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (12 works)