Pupils’ Bulling Behaviors in Jordan: School Managers and Teachers’ Perspectives

Abstract

The study aims at identifying students’ bullying behaviors from Schools managers and teachers’ perspectives. To achieve the study objective, a questionnaire was designed to collect data, pilot-tested and peer-reviewed. The study sample was chosen randomly and consisted of (125) respondents from different cities in Jordan. The results of the study showed that the common bullying behaviors were as follows: verbal bullying (M=4.051, SD= 1.118), physical bullying (M=3.97, SD=1.197), cyber bullying (M=3.742, SD=1.208), and gender bullying (M=3.65, SD=1.235). In addition, results revealed factors of bullying as schools managers and teachers indicated: the bad companions (M=4.90, SD=1.051), parent’s educational and cultural background (M= 4.82, SD=1.135), family disintegration) (M= .784, SD=1.223), the inadequate parental treatment (M=3.37, SD=1.262), and other reasons (M=3.742, SD= 1.207).

Keywords: Bulling behaviors, physical bulling, gender bulling, schools pupils, Jordan

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-5-09

Publication date: February 28^th 2021