What do factors make school bullying more severe?

Kato, HIROMICHI (弘通)¹, Ota, MASAYOSHI, Fujii, MOTOKI
¹Hokkaido University, Kita ward Kita11 Nishi7, 0600811, Sapporo

 

Submission type

Poster only

Scheduled

Hallway, 22-07-2016, 16:00 - 17:00

Keywords

School bullying, victimization, Elementary school, Junior high school

Summary

The purpose of this study is to explore risk factors that make school bullying more severe in the perspectives of teacher-student and child-parent relationship, students’ past experiences weather they would be a perpetrator or not, and teacher’s intervention. A total of 38,057 students from elementary and junior high schools were given a survey about bullying. The surveys were then accumulated and analyzed. At first, the correlation between the frequency of victimization (1. never, 2. once in the three months, 3. once a month, 4. once a week, 5. many times in a week) and depression was examined. There was a positive correlation between two variables (r=.32**,p<01). Therefore we considered that the frequency of victimization could be an index of the severity of school bullying. Then an ordinal regression analysis was calculated to predict the frequency of victimization based on student-teacher and child-parent relationship, their past experience of perpetrator, and non-effective teacher’s intervention. As a result of that, student-teacher relationship (B=-.11, p<.01), having an experience as a perpetrator (B=-.62, p<.01) and non-effective teacher’s intervention (B=-.69, p<.01) were related to the frequency of victimization negatively. Thus we can consider these factors as risk factors that make school bullying more severe. 

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