mina mohebbi; Mirmahmoud Mirnasab; eskandar fathiazar; Toraj Hashemi
Volume 5, Issue 4 , June 2018, , Pages 71-82
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The present study aimed to compare bullying behavior, school bonding and social competence in the bully and pro-bully students. The subjects were 80 elementary school boys selected by purposeful sampling, cluster random sampling and screening methods. Measurement instruments include the Illinois Bullying ...
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The present study aimed to compare bullying behavior, school bonding and social competence in the bully and pro-bully students. The subjects were 80 elementary school boys selected by purposeful sampling, cluster random sampling and screening methods. Measurement instruments include the Illinois Bullying Scale, Peer Nomination Form, Teacher Nomination Form, Participant Role Scale, School Bonding Scale and Self-report Scale for Social Competence. The results of a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) revealed that mean scores of bully and pro-bully students for the sub-scales of bullying behavior (bullying and fighting) were not significant. Also, no significant difference was found between the bully and pro-bully students for the sub-scales of school and teacher attachment, and school involvement of school bonding. Mean score of pro-bully students for the sub-scale of prosocial behavior of social competence was significantly higher than bully students. In addition, mean scores of the pro-bully students was significantly lower than bullies for the sub-scale of disruptive behavior of social competence. The findings indicate the importance and the role of negative perceptions of social competence have on the incidence of bullying at school. Limitations and implications are discussed.
Toraj Hashemi; Fereshteh Golparvar; Eskandar fathiazar
Volume 2, Issue 7 , February 2015, , Pages 27-40
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This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of Bullying Recognition and prevention Program on teachers' views and beliefs about bullying and their efficacy in classroom behavior management. For this study, 40 of female teachers primary school were selected randomly and assigned to experimental and ...
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This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of Bullying Recognition and prevention Program on teachers' views and beliefs about bullying and their efficacy in classroom behavior management. For this study, 40 of female teachers primary school were selected randomly and assigned to experimental and control groups. In order to measure the research variables, the questionnaire of student social behavior and self - efficacy of teachers were used. The designed program for experimental group with bullying recognition and prevention content, was used in six 90 minutes sessions. Results of multivariate covariance analysis indicated that educational interventions was able to create meaningful changes in the two types of teachers' beliefs about bullying (assertive, normative) and their efficiency in classroom behavior management. Considering that information increase of teachers about bullying and their skill to prevent it has a positive results; the findings of study insists on the necessity of performing preparation courses and professional development for teachers and school counselors to properly deal with students' behavior problem and that can be effective in designing the content of in-service programs for teachers.
Toraj Hashemi Nosrat Abad; Shahram Vahedi; Javad Amani Saribagloo
Volume 2, Issue 6 , November 2014, , Pages 71-80
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The aim of current research was to investigate the relationship between school culture, basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relation) and academic performance in a form of causal model. For this research, 420 fourth grade male students in a high school in Urmia city were selected by using ...
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The aim of current research was to investigate the relationship between school culture, basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relation) and academic performance in a form of causal model. For this research, 420 fourth grade male students in a high school in Urmia city were selected by using cluster sampling method. They answered to school culture and basic psychological needs questionnaires. Path analysis was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that tested model had sufficient fit and predicted 24% of changes of academic performance, 11% need for autonomy, 5% need for competence and 7% of variance of need for relation. Need for autonomy had positive and significant effect on academic performance. The effect of need for competence on academic performance was positive and significant. Also, need for relation had positive and significant effect on academic performance. The effect of school culture on need for autonomy, competence and relation was positive and significant. In general, research findings showed that both individual (e.g. basic psychological needs) and contextual variables (e.g. school culture) have important roles in prediction of students' academic performance.
