Bullying in Learning Institutions in Kenya: Knowledge and Interventional Measures | Chapter 4 | New Ideas Concerning Arts and Social Studies Vol. 4

 

Bullying in most learning institutions is a ‘silent epidemic’ since the victims are usually threatened not to reveal it to authorities, or they can suffer the consequences. In most cases, learners who are seen as weak in personality and from a humble background can be bullied by others in school. Previous research has shown a lack of effective interventions; hence, this Chapter fills that gap by highlighting possible interventions that can restore dignity to victims and prevent bullying in the future. This chapter, therefore, highlights possible interventions that can be provided to the victims of bullying to restore their dignity and prevent future forms of bullying in schools. This Chapter is anchored on Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System Theory, which emphasises the risks and factors associated with bullying within the school environment during childhood and adolescence stages of learners. This Chapter has significant importance to the scientific community as it addresses the issue of bullying, which is a “silent epidemic” in global educational institutions, including Kenya. The Chapter also emphasises a multifaceted approach to interventions, which are important for school administrators and policymakers to prioritise for equity and psychological satisfaction of all students.

 

Author(s) Details

Emily C. Sitienei
University of Eldoret, P.O. Box 1125-30100, Eldoret, Kenya.

Hoseah Kiplagat
University of Eldoret, P.O. Box 1125-30100, Eldoret, Kenya.

 

Esther Nyabuto
University of Eldoret, P.O. Box 1125-30100, Eldoret, Kenya.

 

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Prevalence of Bullying Victimization among School-Going Adolescents in Secondary Schools in Al-Karkh, Baghdad, Iraq | Chapter 8 | Current Progress in Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 8

Background: Bullying victimization is a major public health problem. Interest in bullying in the Arab world is a recent phenomenon. In the last four decades, Iraq was exposed to wars, civil war, widespread violence and sectarian violence which in turn means unrest community, internally displaced families (low affluence) and high exposure to trauma. Publication on victimization in Iraq is limited.

Purpose:  This study was conducted to report bullying among students of Iraqi schools.

Methods: A total of 302 students from Baghdad were selected by a cluster random sample to include in this study. Participated students were recruited by multistage random sampling. An Arabic version of the standardized questionnaire was obtained from the International (ISPCAN). Identification of bullying (bullies, victims and sexual victims) was done by using a cutoff for the scoring of bullying manifestation in the questionnaire depending on three repeated actions at least to consider as bullies. Chi-square was used to examine the association of victimization and sexual victimization (dependent variable) with sex, smoking and drug abuse (independent variable). P value less than 0.05 was considered significant for meeting the criteria of bullying.

Results: Out of the total 39.1% were bullied pupils (victims) there was a significant association between bullying and victim with sex (P=0.001). A significant difference was noticed in age between those who reported sexual victimization and those who reported no sexual victimization. Bullying and victimization were significantly associated with smoking, drug abuse, and failure in school (P=0.001 for each).

Conclusion: A high prevalence of victimization (bully, victims and sexual victim was revealed among students in schools as a predictor for smoking and drug abuse.

 

Author (s) Details

 

Hyder M. Yahya
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Baghdad University, Iraq.

 

Mushtaq T. Hashim
Department of Medicine, Unit of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Baghdad University, Iraq.

 

Eman A. Al-Kaseer
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Baghdad University, Iraq.

 

Jawad K. Al-Diwan
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Baghdad University, Iraq.

 

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Respectful Workplace Policies: A Quantitative Study of Staff Education | Chapter 8 | Research Highlights in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 9

 The aim of this chapter search out analyze Canada's Respectful Workplace Policy and how allure provincial matches provide staff instruction to prevent or lessen institution bullying. A workplace procedure is any rule or direction in a professional setting that defines appropriate conduct or best practices. Workplace procedures commonly address topics to a degree health and safety, peer or client interactions and hiring. The study's latent premise is that a thorough understanding of the best context of developing courteous workplace policies should to comprehend how stick education is brought. To find out if there are some differences in bullying content among respectful workplace rules, a all-inclusive technique was used. Other findings from the study of 10 provinces and three territories submitted these complaints of bullying acted not have a separate policy; a suggestion of choice, bullying was placed as a subgroup of supplementary behaviours; harassment, bias and violence. This review can help all parties better think the responsibility of staff instruction together with policy-making and conflict determination necessary to resolve afflictions of workplace bullying. This all-inclusive descriptive study found distinctnesses in respectful workplace tactics across provinces as to how tactics defines and refers to institution bullying.

Author(s) Details:

Carol Rocker,
University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Combatting Bullying in School and Its Consequences | Chapter 3 | Research Highlights in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 6

 The study focuses on which school violence is, allure characteristics, allure forms, its effects and habits it can be obviated. School violence and domineering have a considerable number of results for both the casualty and the aggressor, as they will two together face many difficulties, both in their smooth psychosomatic incident, and their subsequent adult history. The study’s material consists of items related to the argument, found in Greek and International kαl databases, the Google Scholar, and the Hellenic Academic Libraries (HEAL-Link)The study of the wonder of school violence is main since it constitutes the establish top of which stop schedules can be devised. Violence prevention measures concerning the school facilities themselves can too be taken. Parents must always act thoughtfully and without violence inside their residences, and teachers can support the incident of positive friendships between the youth. The abuse and isolation of the adolescents can be reduced thus. Schools must provide the teenagers with safety. The graduates that are the most inclined become domineering victims especially endure be under the impression that they are being shielded in the school.

Author(s) Details:

Evangelos Panagiotis Kaltsas,
Department of Primary Education, University of Thessaly, Greece.

John Kaltsas,
7th High School of Athens, Greece.

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Latent Class Analysis of Exposure to Childhood Trauma and Health Risks among Justice-Involved Youth: An Approach towards Gender Differences | Chapter 10 | New Frontiers in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 12

Research indicates juvenile justice-involved youth experience increased risk of exposure to childhood trauma and health risks. Little is known about the heterogeneity in trauma and health risk experiences among delinquent youth, especially across gender. The current study uses latent class analysis to examine typologies of self-reported exposure to trauma and health risks among a sample of 435 female and 1,198 male juvenile offenders. The study objectives were to identify any subgroups of justice-involved youths with varying patterns of trauma and health risk behaviors across gender, examine the size of these trauma-health risk subgroups, and examine socio-demographic differences in the trauma-health risk latent classes. Findings suggest the presence of three groups of trauma and health risk behaviors within the gender groups. For females, the three subgroups demonstrated linear trends in increasing prevalence of trauma and health risks. For males, the three subgroups reflected a generally low-risk group, a group with high rates of marijuana use and risky sexual behaviors, and a group with high rates of depression, family problems, sexual assault victimization, and bullying. The analyses for the covariates revealed racial differences in trauma and health risks. The findings suggest gendered intervention strategies should be considered for justice-involved youth.

Author(s) Details

Richard Dembo
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.

Julie M. Krupa
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

Jennifer Wareham
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Jessica Wolff
Agency for Community Treatment Services, Inc., Tampa, Florida, USA.

Ralph J. DiClemente
New York University, New York, New York, USA.

James Schmeidler
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.

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