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Kendrick, Michelle Marie. "Evaluating the Effects of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program on Middle School Bullying." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1606.
Sontag, Anna M. "Prevention of bullying : evaluation of Steps to Respect /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3201700.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-131). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Beck, Tracey D. "A bullying prevention program for a school setting /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/beckt/traceybeck.html.
Stone, William Daryl. "Bullying prevention program possible impact on academic performance /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
Tokarick, Karen. "The Effect of Bullying Prevention Programs on the Perceptions of Bullying Among Female Youth." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/288.
Jadambaa, Amarzaya. "Bullying in Australia: Prevalence, health outcomes, cost outcomes, and economic evaluation of bullying prevention." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206147/1/Amarzaya_Jadambaa_Thesis.pdf.
Lebakken, Janice. "Implementing the Wisconsin bullying prevention curriculum in a family and consumer sciences education classroom." Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008lebakkenj.pdf.
Wurf, Gerald Charles. "Reducing bullying: an evaluation of school-based initiatives for the prevention and management of bullying." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29789370.
Tapia, Melissa. "Bullying education and prevention program a grant proposal project." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586171.
Bullying is a serious problem that affects youth from all backgrounds and can negatively affect their development. The purpose of this project was to develop a program, identify potential funding resources, and write a grant to fund a bullying prevention program at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Pasadena Unified School District. The proposed program will take a school-wide approach and implement Second Step, an evidence-based program to prevent bullying. Students will participate in classroom activities to build empathy, communication, bullying prevention, emotion management, and prevent substance abuse. Some enhancements such as assemblies, parent trainings, and incentives will be added to the program to promote collaboration between the school and the home and actively engage all of the systems related to bullying. Implications for social work practice are discussed. The actual submission and/or funding of the grant were not required for the successful completion of this project.
Bailey, Benjamin M. "Adolescents' Perceptions of Homophobic Language: Implications for Bullying Prevention." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5474.
Kim, Jangdae. "Bullying in schools : a comparison of anti-bullying policy and practice in primary schools in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and Kyunggi Province, South Korea." Phd thesis, Faculty of Education and Social Work, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7223.
Paredes, Martha Cecilia. "Bullying prevention strategies for elementary school students| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10007401.
The purpose of this project was to collaborate with the host agency to design a program and seek funding to add a violence prevention component that can be implemented in the public school setting. “Bullying behaviour no doubt is becoming a common feature, and a nightmare in schools all over the world. It is a worrisome practice in schools because it infringes on the child's right to human dignity, privacy, freedom and security” (Aluede, Adeleke, Omoike & Afen-Akpaida, 2008, p. 151). This makes the need to prevent victimization and empower those who are being bullied all the more urgent. A literature review was conducted to determine the risk factors and consequences involved in bullying and to identify conflict resolution programs. The idea that conflicts can be resolved constructively, without physical or verbal violence, provides the basis for an evidence-based program designed to reduce bullying behavior. The implementation of this project will bridge the gap between the services offered to the child, school and community. The actual submission and funding of this grant was not a requirement for the successful completion of this project.
Gasca, Karla. "A Comprehensive Bullying Prevention and Intervention Program a Grant Proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10784467.
The purpose of this project was to locate a potential funding source and write a grant to fund a comprehensive bullying prevention and intervention program at Southeast Middle School (SEMS) in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). An extensive literature review was performed to investigate the prevalence, long-term effects, theoretical frameworks and programs developed to address bullying and cyberbullying victimization. The literature reviewed revealed that a school-based bullying prevention program is highly needed due to approximately 30% of United States students in grades 6–10 having reported involvement in moderate or frequent bullying. The proposed program will take a whole-school approach to reduce bullying, by implementing both prevention and intervention components of Second Step for students, teachers, staff, and parents at SEMS. The overall goal of Second Step program is to build a connected school culture, peer relationships, and reduce bullying and violence on campus. Students will participate in classroom activities to build empathy, impulse control, and anger management skills. Teachers will be trained on how to implement Second Step; the program will be implemented at all grade levels (once a week for 50 minutes) and reduce peer conflict by 50%. The Joseph Drown Foundation was the closest fit that could provide funding for the proposed program, considering the types of populations of interest, the foundation's mission, and funding priorities. If funded, this program would enhance students coping capacities at SEMS to prevent bullying victimization. Actual submission of and/or funding of this grant proposal was not required for successful completion of this project.
Ball, Jamie L. "Bullying Prevention and Grade-Level Differences in Urban Elementary Schools." Thesis, Grand Canyon University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10839783.
Bullying prevention in schools has arguably met with limited success in the United States. Diversity negatively impacts the success of bullying prevention programs. Furthermore, researchers do not agree upon intervention timing and appropriate grade-level to implement bullying prevention and social-emotional learning and skill-building programs. Urban schools faced with high poverty have an increased need for bullying prevention programs to alleviate bullying and aggression. The purpose of this study was to test for significant differences between urban elementary schools after a treatment group participated in a targeted bullying prevention and social skill-building program and to test for grade-level differences from fall to spring using a quantitative causal-comparative design. The sample included four urban schools in Ohio with 24 grade-levels and six time points each. The data generated were analyzed retrospectively in a causal-comparative research design. A two-way mixed ANOVA BBW was conducted on the summary totals of the number of students disciplined for bullying and aggression using six time points with three for fall or before treatment and three for spring or after treatment comparing a treatment group to a control group. Significant differences were not found between control and treatment or between grade groups (p > .05). Bullying and aggression started the school year and ended the school year slightly higher in the 4-6th grade group. Significant differences were found from fall to spring (F (5,16) = 7.704, p = .001). Overall the study findings indicate the targeted bullying prevention and social-skill building program did not result in reducing bullying and aggressive behavior in the sample population.
Ross, Scott W. "Bully prevention in positive behavior support /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10240.
Jones, Hilary Brooke. "How do you stop the boogeyman? : an evaluation of a sexual assualt prevention program /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2008. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3314443.
Setlhwana, Sekedi Onicca. "Psychological consequences of bullying in the secondary schools of Capricorn District, Limpopo Province." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1982.
The study investigated prevalence rates and psychological consequences of bullying in schools within the Sekgosese West Circuit, Capricorn District, Limpopo Province. Participants were identified and drawn through stratified random sampling. The final sample consisted of 670 learners enrolled for Grades 8, 9 and 10, 49% of whom fell in the 14-15 years old age group, and 56% being female. Data were collected using a structured, composite questionnaire, within a cross-sectional research design. The results of the study show that most bullies and the bullied-bullies were male learners, and rates of the bullied were evenly split between male and female learners. The largest proportions of bullies and the bullied-bullies were the youngest and the oldest age groups. The oldest group was the largest group of the bullied. The largest proportions of the bullies and the bullied were in grade 8, and the proportion of the bullied-bullies was almost the same in grades 8 and 10, edging the proportion found in grade 9. The investigation also found that learners who were not involved in bullying experienced the least amounts of psychological distress. However, the bullies, bullied and bullied-bullies obtained mean scores that were not statistically different from each other from the measures of psychological distress used in this study. It is concluded from the results of the study that bullying is common in the Sekgosese West Circuit, and its psychological consequences are same for all the learners who involved in bullying one way or another. It is recommended that the study be replicated in other districts of Limpopo, and the context of bullying itself be considered as a candidate for inclusion in future studies. Key words: Bullied, bully, bullied-bully, learners, psychological distress
MILIOTIS, GEORGIOS. "School bullying in contemporary Greece : An empirical examination of school bullying and its prevention in the Greek press." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Barn, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148055.
Stauffer, Sterling V. "High School Teachers' Perceptions of Cyber Bullying Prevention and Intervention Strategies." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2778.
Matthews, Shannon. "The Experiences of Elementary School Counselors in Bullying Intervention and Prevention." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7488.
Pepelar, Azra, and Jesper Johansson. "Det är inte endast mobbaren som mobbar : En studie om det sociala fenomenet mobbning och dess roller." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24120.
Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka pedagogernas föreställningar om det sociala fenomenet mobbning, om vilka roller som kan uppstå samt hur dessa pedagoger anser sig arbeta utifrån detta. Våra frågeställningar är därför: Vilka föreställningar om det sociala fenomenet mobbning finns hos pedagogerna? Vilka roller uppstår i olika mobbningssituationer enligt pedagogerna? Hur anser sig pedagogerna arbeta med mobbning och dess roller som uppstår? Studien ger en inblick i hur olika förhållningssätt till mobbning kan bidra till olika pedagogiska implikationer i antimobbningsarbetet. I vår teoridel presenterar vi det socialpsykologiska perspektivet samt vilka roller olika författare beskriver. Vi har valt tidigare forskning som behandlar de roller som kan uppstå. Denna kvalitativa studie bygger på åtta pedagogers intervjusvar, som vi sedan har bearbetat och analyserat. Vårt resultat och vår analys presenteras utifrån fyra kategorier; Hur man behandlar varandra, pedagogernas uppfattning om mobbning, arbetet med mobbning och roller. Resultatet av denna studie har visat att om man som pedagog har förståelse för de roller som kan uppstå, kan man eventuellt lättare arbeta med mobbning. Resultatet har även visat att pedagogernas föreställningar om rollerna liknar varandra. Även hur pedagogerna arbetar med mobbning, både generellt och förebyggande, framkommer i vårt resultat. I diskussionen diskuterar vi pedagogernas föreställningar om och arbetet med mobbning och de roller som kan uppstå utifrån vår tidigare forskning. Vi avslutar med egna tankar och vidare forskning.
Ttofi, Maria. "Testing the applicability of criminological theories to the context of bullying behaviour : implications for prevention and treatment." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611588.
Dudte, Kari A. "Electronic Bullying: The Case of Anonymity." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1292339674.
Woodfine, Debra A. "Friends and Neighbours (F.A.N.) Club, a prevention program on bullying : understanding and learning from the child's experience." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29558.
Gibson, Jennifer E. "When Youth Take the Lead: Youth Participatory Action Research as Bullying Prevention." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1312397798.
Kalis, James P. "Implementation Level and the Perceived Effectiveness of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu155931727842743.
Crable, Timothy. "The Lived Experience of School Bus Drivers: Bullying Prevention on School Buses." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2476.
Sampaio, Julliane Messias Cordeiro. "Bullying no contexto escolar: avaliação de um programa de intervenção." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/22/22133/tde-04032016-193910/.
Bullying can be considered a kind of violence whose actions can cause serious damage to those involved, either as victims or perpetrators, or even indirectly, as spectators / witness. However, in order to mediate existing conflicts, it can construct an emancipatory process, in which the subject becomes able to manage their decisions, to engage or not with this kind of violence at school, supported by the knowledge of his reality. Seeking actions to reduce and prevent bullying, the Education Program Intervention in Health Antibullying (PIESA) was executed in a public school in São Paulo State, Brazil, in order to assess the effects of its implementation carried out by a nurse. Method: quasi-experimental study (before and after) using as subjects 260 students aged from 10 to 17 years old, from 6th to 9th year of high school from a public school in São Paulo State, Brazil,. Data collection occurred from April 2012 to September 2013. Data were analyzed statistically, yielding a prevalence ratio with confidence interval (CI) of 95% and comparison of pre- and post-intervention. The programs used in the analysis were SPSS 22 and R 3.0.2. In all tests adopted, we used the 5% significance level. Results: It was found that there was a change of behavior among students involved directly or indirectly with bullying after running the PIESA (p = 0.001), and the data showed a decrease in the prevalence of victims and aggressors after the intervention, as well as of the situations which permeated the phenomenon. \"Putting nickname\" and being \"mocked\" were the most frequently reported events, both by victims and by aggressors and, equally, the frequency of these perpetration decreased in the second stage of the investigation. It was also observed a higher prevalence of female victims. Conclusion: The results of this research show that the intervention program can be implemented by a nurse. For this, one must reevaluate it periodically so that, in case of new potential for conflicts and even new forms of manifestation, the school community is able to detect and intervene quickly, preventing a new cycle of violence begins
Liu, Wai-hung Arthur, and 廖偉雄. "An exploratory study of students' bullying behaviors in secondary school." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3197885X.
Matthews, Brenda Marian Frederica. "Evaluation of a bullying prevention programme at selected schools in the Western Cape Province – the Olweus approach." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4963.
The study aimed to pilot-test the effectiveness of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Intervention Programme (OBPP) at two selected primary schools in the Western Cape; and to compare the differences in reported incidents of bullying between the control schools (CSs) and intervention schools (ISs), after the OBPP intervention. On the basis of these aims, the stated objectives were to measure bullying behaviour for pre-test and post-test comparisons with the CSs after the implementation of the OBPP at the ISs; and to investigate the effectiveness of the OBPP by comparing the ISs and CSs for programme targets. Three main hypotheses were formulated and tested, including: (1) There is no statistically significant difference in the mean rank of learners’ exposure to various types of bullying, characteristics (grade level and gender) of the perpetrator, locations of where the bullying occurred, disclosure of the bullying incident, participants’ and peers’ feelings of support, reactions and attitudes when experiencing or witnessing a bullying incident, parents’ and teachers’ reactions and efforts to support and protect victims and participants’ reports of satisfactory schooling environments at the ISs and CSs before and after intervention; (2) There is no statistically significant difference in mean rank of learners’ exposure to various types of bullying, characteristics (grade level and gender) of the perpetrator, locations of where the bullying occurred , disclosure of the bullying incident, participants’ and peers’ feelings of support, reactions and attitudes when experiencing or witnessing a bullying incident, parents’ and teachers’ reactions and efforts to support and protect victims and participants’ reports of satisfactory schooling environments between females’ and males’ reports before and after intervention; (3)There is no statistically significant difference in mean rank of learners’ exposure to various types of bullying, characteristics (grade level and gender) of the perpetrator, locations of where the bullying occurred , disclosure of the bullying incident, participants’ and peers’ feelings of support, reactions and attitudes when experiencing or witnessing a bullying incident, parents’ and teachers’ reactions and efforts to support and protect victims and participants’ reports of satisfactory schooling environments between females’ and males’ at the ISs and CSs before and after intervention. In order to provide the relevant theoretical orientations to the study, the Olweus Approach, served as a framework for investigating the prevalence and extent of bullying in the selected schools, while Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological theoretical framework was used to inform the study. In order to reach these objectives, a quantitative method using a questionnaire to collect data and a quasi-experimental design with intervention (ISs) and control (CSs) groups was used. The following are the main findings in terms of tested hypotheses: Firstly, there is a positive statistically significant difference concerning the CSs variables that include peer support toward bullying (school 2 and 4) where females represented higher mean ranks than males at school 2 and males were represented by higher mean ranks compared to females for school 4. Furthermore, for the variables peer attitudes toward bullying (school 4) and reported satisfactory schooling environments (school 4), more females than males attested for both. This suggests a favourable effect without the intervention. Furthermore, there is a statistically significant difference concerning the ISs variables that include characteristics (grade level and gender) of the perpetrator (school 1), disclosure of the bullying incident (school 1), peer reaction and attitudes toward bullying (school 1), parents’ and teachers’ reactions and efforts to support and protect victims against bullying (school 1 & 3), class teacher efforts to support and protect victims of bullying (school 1) as well as reported satisfactory schooling environments ( school 1). Secondly, it is noteworthy that for all the variables that presented statistically significant differences between females and males at baseline and follow up for the ISs – on average more females compared to males attested to this. Finally, statistically significant differences in terms of overall positive improvements i.e. N=200 that reported been bullied at baseline, was highlighted at only one of the ISs (school 1). Variables in this regard, included exposure to various types of bullying, characteristics (grade and level) of the perpetrator, disclosure of the bullying and reports of having a satisfactory schooling environment and noteworthy is that more males than females attested to be exposed to various types of bullying. These findings confirmed that the implementation of the OBPP has shown to be an effective programme at instilling an anti-bullying culture in terms of the named variables. The study therefore recommends, among others, that schools address existing bullying behaviour and prevent further bullying by building and enhancing existing connections between itself and the community which it serves; that the staff as a whole sets the standards of advocating an anti-bullying culture; and that teacher training colleges and universities offer the guidelines of the OBPP as a part of the students’ curriculum requirements.
National Development Agency (NDA) and the University of the Western Cape
Hazeltine, Christopher Samuel. "Understanding Teachers' Perceptions of Bullying for Developing Teacher Detection and Intervention." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4730.
Losey, Raymond A. "An Evaluation of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program’s Effectiveness in a High School Setting." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250132432.
Burkhart, Kimberly M. "Parental Factors Contributing to Bullying and the Effects of the ACT Parents Raising Safe Kids Program on the Reduction of Bullying." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1350060587.
Teemer, Marcia Rushin. "Teacher Interventions Based on Childhood Bullying Experiences." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1328.
Huddleston, Lillie. "Evaluating Treatment Acceptability, Treatment Integrity, and Cultural Modifications of a Bullying Prevention Intervention." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cps_diss/86.
Brist, Todd L. "Not just a rite of passage| An action research project on bullying prevention." Thesis, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3686634.
Using action research design and methodology, the goal of this project was to reduce and prevent bullying at a rural middle school in South Dakota through the implementation of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP). This project was rooted in replication of Dr. Dan Olweus' seminal work on bullying prevention, the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. N = 521 students participated in the project. The OBPP Implementation Flowchart and OBPP Scope and Sequence guided implementation. Despite a high degree of fidelity of implementation on the OBPP Readiness Assessment, OBPP Classroom Implementation Checklist, and OBPP First Year Checklist, the results on the Olweus Bullying Questionnaire (OBQ) were mixed with some key indicators showing an increase in bullying behaviors. However, the results are limited due to the OBPP's propensity to bring about increased recognition and reporting of bullying behaviors in the first year as a result of skills and strategies learned through class meetings. Additional time and study are recommended in order to draw definitive conclusions regarding the overall effectiveness of the OBPP. Other recommendations for further study include: improved fidelity of implementation and the addition of a prosocial skills/character education component to support the tenets of the OBPP.
Johnson, Brian C. "Adolescents' Perceptions of Bullying Involving Male Relational Aggression: Implications for Prevention and Intervention." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2181.
Likeric, Hanka, and Andersson Therese. "Avsändare Anonym : en kvalitativ undersökning om fenomenet nätmobbning ur skolpersonalens perspektiv." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-8225.
Kgopyana, Josephinah Kwena. "Teachers' perspective on learner bullying at selected Secondary schools in Moletjie Moshate Community." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3058.
Bullying seems to be prevalent in most secondary schools, and teachers have a daily task of dealing with it. In South Africa, there are many issues which influence teachers’ management of bullying, such as community violence and parental attitudes. Teachers’ abilities to identify and respond to incidents of bullying, and their knowledge of bullying behaviour can have an impact on anti-bullying strategies. Secondary school management as well as parents have a responsibility towards efforts to eliminate bullying in schools. Failure to reduce bullying in secondary schools would result in high failure rates and poor concentration on school work among learners. This study aimed to describe teachers’ perspectives on learner bullying at Schools A and B. This study used Albert Bandura’s (1977) Social Learning Theory which offers a theoretical framework that helped the researcher find meaning in respect of the roles of the bully, victim and offenders. The study followed a qualitative approach, using focus group sessions to collect data in order to explore teachers’ experiences of bullying. The qualitative data were analysed by means of thematic analysis to present the collected data. The responses were recorded in the form of writing. The data was thoroughly structured into themes. Information obtained from respondents was treated with great confidentiality. Purposive and availability sampling were used to identify potential respondents who were asked to volunteer to be part of the study. The research findings specified that teachers experience and observe a wide variety of bullying behaviour which takes place at different sites, both inside and outside the school grounds. Moreover, the teachers conveyed numerous factors which they experienced as pertaining to bullying and emphasised the perceived effects. In addition to this, the participants shared knowledge about their teaching practices and recommended a few approaches on how to deal with bullying more effectively in their schools.
Ordonez, Maria Alicia. "Prevalence of bullying among elementary school children as a function of the comprehensiveness of anti-bullying policies and programs in the school." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1344194.
Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
Losey, Raymond Alan. "An evaluation of the Olweus Bullying Prevention program's effectiveness in a high school setting." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1250132432.
Advisor: Mei Tang. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Dec. 15, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: bullying; bullying prevention; Olweus. Includes bibliographical references.
Errichetti, Karen Sautter. "An evaluation of the early implementation of school-based bullying prevention programs in Massachusetts." Thesis, Boston University, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/11043.
Background: A quarter of U.S. children are bullied annually. State legislatures have responded to high profile media exposure of bullying and increased public concern by passing legislation aimed at preventing bullying among school children. Methods: The RE-AlM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) framework was used to evaluate public school district responses to a Massachusetts 2010 anti-bullying law (MGL Ch. 71, Section 370). Massachusetts parents, school committee members, law enforcement leaders, and superintendents were surveyed about their perceptions of the law and its implementation. Comparative analyses were conducted using chi-square tests for categorical data. School district stakeholders in four diverse Massachusetts communities also were interviewed in depth to identify factors affecting adoption, implementation, and maintenance of school bullying prevention. Findings from these case studies were analyzed using standard qualitative analysis techniques and software. Results: The law had broad reach across Massachusetts public schools, with high levels of awareness of the law's existence (93.4%) and support for the mandate (81.3%) from an array of school constituencies. Across all stakeholders, there was a low degree of belief that bullying rates had decreased after the law's implementation. Superintendents were more likely than school committee members or parents to believe school bullying interventions were effective. There was no evidence to suggest that school districts modified or realigned their anti-bullying strategies in response to the legislation. School districts have complied with the letter of the law, but adoption of the law has been challenged by competing priorities, absence of community consensus about the importance of the problem, concern about the evidence base for anti-bullying curricula, and the appropriateness of delegating responsibility for bullying prevention to schools. Conclusion: The anti-bullying mandate catalyzed school districts to standardize their response to bullying, but there is no evidence to suggest an impact on bullying rates. The narrow focus of a bullying law could redirect resources away from equally important priorities and programs related to socio-mental health and root causes of bullying. Findings suggest that re-direction of narrow regulatory efforts mandated by the law into collaborative development of broader health promotion programming with local flexibility may address bullying more effectively.
Kruger, Martha Margaretha. "Bullying in secondary schools : teachers' perspectives and experiences." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17929.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Bullying seems to be a pervasive problem in most secondary schools and teachers have the daily task of dealing with it. Not only do teachers have to unravel the complex dynamics of bullying, they also often have to navigate a school climate and culture that is not conducive to addressing bullying. In South Africa, there are many unique contextual factors which impact on teachers’ management of bullying, such as community violence overflowing into the school, increased administrative load and limited support from school management, parents and education authorities. Therefore, teachers’ abilities to conceptualise bullying, recognise and respond to incidents of bullying, and their knowledge of the nature and extent of bullying behaviour impact greatly on anti-bullying strategies. The theoretical framework which informed this study is the social context perspective which drew on views from both social constructionism and the bio-ecological framework. The social context perspective emphasises the interactions between individuals and the systems as delineated in the bio-ecological model. Furthermore, this study did not aim to reveal the “truth” about school bullying. The intention has rather been to provide a comprehensive picture as was portrayed by the participants in this study. This picture included the nature and extent of bullying in their secondary school, the teachers’ perspectives and experiences of bullying, and proposed prevention and intervention strategies which they aim to implement at their school. In keeping with the constructionist nature of the process of inquiry, a qualitative, interpretivist research approach was used. Purposive sampling was used to identify potential participants who were then asked to volunteer to be part of the study. Data was generated through semi-structured interviews with individuals and focus groups. Furthermore, the constant comparative method was used to analyse the data. The research findings indicated that the teachers experience and perceive a wide variety of bullying behaviours which take place at various sites, both within and outside the school grounds and that involve a diverse range of individuals within the school community. Furthermore, the teachers conveyed several factors which they experienced as maintaining bullying and highlighted their perceived effects thereof. In addition to this, the participants shared knowledge about their teaching practices and suggested a few strategies on how to deal with bullying more effectively in their school community.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Afknouery word beskou as ‘n deurlopende probleem in hoërskole en onderwysers moet die gevolge daarvan daagliks hanteer. Onderwysers moet nie net die komplekse dinamiek van afknouery ontrafel nie, maar worstel ook met ‘n skoolklimaat en -kultuur wat nie toepaslik is om afknouery te bekamp nie. In Suid-Afrika is daar unieke kontekstuele faktore wat ‘n invloed het op hoe onderwysers afknouery hanteer. Dit sluit onder andere in die geweld wat oorvloei vanuit die gemeenskap na die skool, verhoogde administratiewe werklading asook beperkte ondersteuning van die skool se bestuurspan, ouers en die onderwysowerhede. Daarom speel onderwysers se vermoëns om afknouery te konseptualiseer, insidente van afknouery te herken en daarop te reageer, asook hulle kennis van afknougedrag ‘n groot impak op anti-afknouery strategieë. Hierdie studie word gekonseptualiseer vanuit ‘n sosiaal-konstruktiwistiese en bioekologiese perspektief. ‘n sosiale konteksperspektief beklemtoon die interaksies tussen individue en die sisteme wat uiteengesit is in die bio-ekologiese model. Die doel van hierdie studie was nie om die “waarheid” oor afknouery in die skool te openbaar nie. Dit was eerder om die deelnemers se perspektief in diepte te analiseer en beskryf. ‘n Kwalitatiewe, interpretivistiese navorsingsbenadering is daarom gevolg. ‘n Doelgerigte steekproef is gebruik om potensiële deelnemers te identifiseer en hulle is gevra om vrywillig deel te neem aan die studie. Data is gegenereer deur semi-gestruktureerde individuele en fokusgroeponderhoude. Verder is die konstante vergelykende metode gebruik om die data te analiseer. Die navorsingsbevindinge het aangedui dat die onderwysers ‘n wye verskeidenheid afknougedrag van diverse groepe en individue binne en buite die skoolterrein ervaar. Die onderwysers het verskeie faktore identifiseer wat afknouery moontlik instandhou en het die moontlike gevolge van afknouery uitgelig. Laastens het die deelnemers kennis oor hulle onderwyspraktyke gedeel en voorstelle gemaak oor hoe om afknouery meer effektief in hul skoolgemeenskap te hanteer.
Caparanis, Lacey B. "Adolescents' Interpretations of Bullying." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1430096196.
Larsson, Sabina, and Emma Hartvigsson. "För ett socialt kapital av god kvalité : - Det förebyggande arbetet mot mobbning ur skolkuratorers och lärares perspektiv." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, SA, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-16917.
Kincade, Wendy. "Effect of Dialogic Training on School Bullying and Inter-Student Cooperation with Sixth Grade Students in a Rural Oregon Middle School." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18343.
Slattery, Lindsey. "A Functional Approach to Bullying Prevention and Reduction: The Development and Evaluation of the Functional Behavior Assessment for Bullying-Behavior in Schools (FABB-S)." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7949.
Darney, Christine Kyle. "The experience and aftermath of chronic bullying on individuals' socio-emotional development." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1214.
Oliveira, Carolina Marques. "Prevenir a Brincar: Programa de Prevenção de Comportamentos Agressivos entre Crianças do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico." Bachelor's thesis, [s.n.], 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/5568.
O presente trabalho aborda a problemática dos comportamentos agressivos entre crianças e a sua prevenção, sendo que o seu objetivo visou a conceção de um programa de prevenção de comportamentos agressivos entre crianças, bem como na sua aplicação numa Escola do Concelho de Mação. O programa, construído a partir de uma necessidade constatada pela equipa multidisciplinar da Comissão de Proteção e Crianças e Jovens do mesmo Concelho, foi pensado de forma a promover competências pessoais e sociais nos alunos de modo a prevenir e reduzir os comportamentos agressivos entre eles. O programa de prevenção foi aplicado, em conjunto com a Comissão de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens de Mação, na Escola Básica de Mação e conta com uma amostra de cinquenta e um alunos, com idades compreendidas entre os seis e os sete anos correspondentes ao 1.º e 2.º anos de escolaridade. Os resultados foram conseguidos através da aplicação de dois questionários (pré e pós aplicação) de modo a perceber quais as competências que as crianças já haviam adquirido e as que desenvolveram através da aplicação deste programa. Assim, os dados obtidos sugerem que no geral, as crianças apresentaram melhorias estatisticamente significativas em relação ao questionário aplicado inicialmente. No entanto, determinadas competências desenvolvidas, nomeadamente, o saber elogiar e o saber identificar e expressar sentimentos, deveriam ser trabalhadas durante mais tempo, ajudando as crianças a reconhecer, gerir as suas emoções e a apreciarem as perspetivas dos outros, estabelecendo objetivos positivos e tomarem decisões responsáveis ao longo da sua vida.
This work addresses the problem of aggressive behavior among children and its prevention, and its objective aimed at the conception of a program for the prevention of aggressive behavior among children, as well as its application in a Mação County School. The program, built from a perceived need by the multidisciplinary team of Protection Commission and Children and Youth of the same county, was designed to promote personal and social skills in students in order to prevent and reduce aggressive behavior among them. The prevention program was implemented in colaboration with the Committee on Protection of Children and Youth Mação, the Basic School of Mação and has a participation of fifty-one pupils, aged between six and seven years corresponding to 1 o and 2 years of schooling. The results were achieved through the application of two questionnaires (before and after application) in order to understand what skills the children had already acquired and those developed through the implementation of this program. Thus, the results suggest that in general, children showed statistically significant improvements about the first questionnaire. However, certain developed skills in particular to know praise and to know how to identify and express feelings, should be worked for longer, helping children to recognize, to manage their emotions and to appreciate the perspectives of others, setting positive objectives and take responsible decisions throughout their lives.
Topper, Lauren. "Bullying victimisation and alcohol-misuse in adolescence : investigating the functional relationship and new prevention strategies." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2012. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/bullying-victimisation-and-alcoholmisuse-in-adolescence(2418eef4-5969-461c-abd1-bd9da8f8fa65).html.