Moral Disengagement in Cyberbullying Through Serious Games in Neurodiverse Children

Little attention has been given toward understanding how neurodiverse children develop their morality and engage in moral (dis)engagement mechanisms as they encounter cyberbullying situations. Furthermore, there is a lack of exploration into how their regulation of emotions can influence their moral behavior. In this chapter we discuss moral developmentSocial and moral development and (dis)engagement, the risks of using the Internet, such as cyberbullying, as well as how serious games can serve as a promising resource to understand these processes and behaviors in neurodiverse children. We believe that this constitutes a new line of research which provides an important contribution to the well-being of these children, and opens avenues for future studies examining individual, behavioral, and contextual factors that determine how neurodiverse children interpret, react to, and cope using different strategies.