tahereh pazhoohi; mohammad ali nadi; Ilnaz Sajjadian
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of cyber bullying reduction training packages (especially for students and parents) on self-esteem and life satisfaction in high school students. The method was quasi-experimental (pre-test-post-test) with control group and follow-up stage. The ...
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of cyber bullying reduction training packages (especially for students and parents) on self-esteem and life satisfaction in high school students. The method was quasi-experimental (pre-test-post-test) with control group and follow-up stage. The statistical population was all high school students (second year) cyber bullying (perpetrators) in Gachsaran city in the academic year 2009-2010. In the sampling method of the present study, first the cyber bullying questionnaire was given to high school male and female students. Then, after analyzing the results, cyber bullying students (perpetrators) were identified, 15 people were assigned as the experimental group and 15 people as the control group. Both groups completed the Cooper-Smith (1968) and Life Satisfaction (Hubner, 2001) self-esteem questionnaires as a pre-test and then as a post-test after the implementation of training packages. After the external (executive) validation, the training packages were implemented in the form of a preliminary study on a group of 4 people for cyber bullying perpetrators for 10 sessions and the parents of cyber bullying perpetrators for 4 sessions and the defects and ambiguities were reviewed and removed. Then the main performance was performed and research data were analyzed at both descriptive and inferential levels. Analysis of covariance was used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that the difference between pre-test and post-test in the scores of all research variables was significant (p <0.001). Therefore, cyber bullying reduction training packages can be used to improve research dependent variables.
Mansour Bayrami; Touraj Hashemi; Eskandar Fathi Azar; Parvaneh Ala’i
Volume 8, Issue 26 , January 2013, , Pages 152-175
Abstract
Bullying is a low-level violence that has been attended lately by educational psychologists and researchers, and has two forms: traditional and cyber bullying. This research was conducted to study the prevalence of bullying and its relation to teacher–student relationship among female adolescents ...
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Bullying is a low-level violence that has been attended lately by educational psychologists and researchers, and has two forms: traditional and cyber bullying. This research was conducted to study the prevalence of bullying and its relation to teacher–student relationship among female adolescents of public middle schools in Tabriz. It also sought to compare these variables between various grades. Therefore, 397 female students of Tabriz middle schools in the school year 2011-2012 were chosen by the multi-stage cluster random sampling method and Bullying Scale (Patchin & Hinduja, 2011) and Inventory of Teacher–Student Relationship (Murray & Zvoch, 2011) were used as the research tools. Data analysis by SPSS showed that prevalence of bullying behavior during the last month of study was 64.2%. Pearson correlation coefficient test displayed that there was negative correlation between bullying, its traditional and cyber forms, and teacher–student relationship quality (p<0.01). According to the results of regression, alienation from and trust in teacher predicted 19% variance of bullying variable; and alienation factor was a better predictor variable (ß=-0.32). Moreover, results of one-way analysis of variance demonstrated that prevalence of bullying among students of second and third grades was more than first graders, and their relationships to teachers were also more negative. Considering the experimental results, increased attention to the quality of teacher–student relationship is recommended for decreasing maladaptive and bullying behaviors of students, especially girls.
