Abstract

Introduction: Bullying is still a problem and continues to increase especially in school-aged children. If cases of bullying do not get any immediate treatment, it will cause various problems from psychological, psychosomatic, social, academic issues, and even present a risk of suicide. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of bullying curriculum for prevention and management of bullying in school-aged children. Methods: The study used a quantitative study method with a quasi-experimental of pre and post-test without control group design. The population of this study was students of grade-five in one of primary school in Jakarta. The samples of this study used total sampling consisting of 30 respondents. The instrument of this study used the instrument of bullying that was modified by the researchers and has passed the validity and reliability test. The analysis of this study used McNemar test. Results: The result of this study shows that there were bullying incidents occurred for as much as 100% before the intervention and as much as 60% after the intervention. The result of bivariate test of this study shows the value of p=0.000. Conclusions: The implementation of curriculum of bullying is effective for prevention and management of bullying in school-aged children.

Highlights

  • Bullying is still a problem and continues to increase especially in school-aged children

  • The results of this study described, before the bullying curriculum was implemented, there were 0 the perpetrators, 2 the victims, and 28 both perpetrators and victims

  • Bullying value incidents conducting preliminary study and data collection by reviewing literatures that related to bullying, planning a study implementation including activities to formulate study activity design, study objectives, study outcomes, study steps, and listing stakeholders to be involved in formulating and designing the instrument of bullying curriculum as an effort

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Introduction

Bullying is still a problem and continues to increase especially in school-aged children. If cases of bullying do not get any immediate treatment, it will cause various problems from psychological, psychosomatic, social, academic issues, and even present a risk of suicide. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of bullying curriculum for prevention and management of bullying in school-aged children. Conclusions: The implementation of curriculum of bullying is effective for prevention and management of bullying in school-aged children. Bullying often occurs in schools and continues to increase. In Indonesia, there are more than 26,000 cases of bullying happen in children and this number increase at a rate of 16.3% every year (Setyawan, 2017). In China, aside from sociodemographic factors, academic achievement, and gender differences, bullying is influenced by parenting style, teacher-andstudent relationship, social media, and individual characteristics (Huang, Hong, & Espelage, 2013)

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