School Bullying and its Relationship to the Academic Achievement of the 10th Grade Students in Public Schools in Jordan

Abstract

The current study aims to find out the level of school bullying among the 10th Grade Students in Public Schools in Jordan and its relationship to academic achievement, where the descriptive approach was used and a scale was built to achieve this goal, which included 18 items, after verifying its psychometric characteristics, the scale was distributed to a voluntary sample that included (105) students studying in the first year average of both genders, and the study concluded that the level of bullying among the study sample was high, and the academic achievement of this group is low, and there is an inverse correlation between school bullying and the academic achievement of the study sample.

Keywords: School bullying, Academic achievement, Tenth grade students, Public schools.