Factors Associated with Bullying Behavior in Islamic Private Schools, Pattani Province, Southern Thailand

Kasetchai Laeheem

doi:10.5539/ass.v9n3p55

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the associations between students’ bullying behaviors in Islamic private schools, Pattani province and classroom management factors (democracy, authoritarian, and permissive classroom management), family upbringing factors (strict, permissive, and democracy upbringing), environment violence factors (influence of peers violence, community violence, and parents violence), and to identify risk factors for bullying behaviors. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1,500 students were interviewed to collect relevant data by using a screening inventory for students at risk of exposure to bullying behavior in Islamic private schools (Laeheem & Sungkharat, 2012). Pearson Product-moment correlation test was used to analyze the associations between bullying outcome and various determinants linked to classroom management factors, family upbringing factors, and environment violence factors. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify risk factors for bullying. The study indicated that there were significant associations between bullying behavior and authoritarian classroom management, strict upbringing, influence of peers violence, and influence of parents violence. The influence of parents violence was clearly the most strongly associated predictors in explaining the students bullying behavior (Beta value= 2.26). The strict upbringing, authoritarian classroom management, and influence of peers violence were also made some contribution in explaining the variance in the students bullying behavior (Beta value= 1.93, 0.23, and -3.27), respectively.

Highlights

Bullying is a common behavioral problem occurring in Islamic private schools, is considered a common problem in schools and is well-known to among all parties concerned such as among students themselves, parents, teachers and educators
This study aims to investigate the associations between students’ bullying behaviors and various determinants, and to identify risk factors for students’ bullying behaviors in Pattani Islamic private schools including classroom management factors, Family upbringing factors, environment violence factors
The mean score of nine predictor variables, the democracy upbringing was at a high level (Mean= 3.74), the permissive upbringing, the democracy classroom management, the strict upbringing, the permissive classroom management, the influence of peers violence, the influence of parents violence, and the influence of community violence were at moderate level, and the authoritarian classroom management was at a low level (Mean= 2.07)

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Introduction

Bullying is a common behavioral problem occurring in Islamic private schools, is considered a common problem in schools and is well-known to among all parties concerned such as among students themselves, parents, teachers and educators. It is still a worrying problem which affects students’ quality of life, inflicting psychological, emotional, and physical damage and occurs throughout the world beyond (Kochenderfer & Ladd, 1996; Laeheem, Kuning, McNeil, & Besag, 2008). School bullying can be defined as any negative actions repeatedly inflicted by a stronger student or student gang toward another student (Farrington, 1993; Olweus, 1999). Physical bullying is an action oriented and an intended to intimidate or physically hurt the victim through pinching, pushing, kicking, and hitting, while verbal bullying is using words to humiliate or hurt someone’s feelings through teasing, name-calling, insulting, or threatening behavior (Beale, 2001; Woods & Wolke, 2004; Gini, 2004)

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