Examining the Effect of a Program Developed to Address Bullying in Primary Schools
Journal Title: The Journal of Pediatric Research - Year 2020, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Aim: The purpose of this study is to evaluate effectiveness of a bullying prevention program developed using an integrated approach, in the short-term and long-term, in primary schools. Materials and Methods: This study was made using a quasi-experimental control group pretest-posttest design; one of the experimental research methods. This study comprised 113 students receiving 6th grade education at 2 randomly selected schools in the districts of Konak and Karabağlar, in Izmir, Turkey. The data were gathered using the Demographic Data Questionnaire and The Peer Bully Adolescent Form. In the experimental group, students attended a bullying prevention program and their parents and teachers attended seminars for 5 weeks. The data were collected before the training, 2 weeks after the training, at the 6th month, and at 1 year after the training. In the analysis of the data, ANOVA was used in repetitive measurements and t-tests were used in dependent and independent groups with Bonferroni correction. Results: A statistically significant difference was found among the control and experimental group victim subdimension point averages in the group interaction (F=68.28, p=0.001), time interaction (F=7.39, p=0.001), and group-time interaction (F=14.04, p=0.001). A statistically significant difference was found between the control and experimental group bully subdimension point averages in the group interaction (F=7.63, p=0.007) and time interaction (F=20.21, p=0.001). No significant difference was determined in the group-time interaction (F=1.10, p=0.349). Conclusion: It was found that the bullying prevention program based on the Social Cognitive Theory is effective in decreasing the rates of students who are bullies or are the victims of bullying, and this effect continues in the victims through to the end of the 1st year; however, it becomes nonsignificant in bullies by the end of the 1st year.
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Hulya Karatas, Candan Ozturk
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