Resilience against radicalization and extremism in schools: Development of a psychometric scale.

ABSTRACT: Practitioners, policymakers, and researchers alike have argued that the school environment can be both a risk and resilience factor for radicalization and extremism among youth, but little research has tested this directly. Against this background and using a cultural and community psychological approach, we developed a scale to measure resilience against radicalization and extremism in schools focusing on factors that can strengthen social cohesion. A total of 334 school pupils from mostly urban areas in Norway were recruited for this research, of which 233 passed an attention check and were retained for analyses. Participants completed a larger set of items that were derived from theory and the experiences of practitioners and were intended to measure resilience to radicalization and ext

SUBMITTER: Eldor DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9685524 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature