Saudi child bullying in primary grades schools , the case of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | ||||
| International Journal of Sports Science and Arts | ||||
| Article 1, Volume 015, Issue 015, August 2020, Page 34-44 PDF (334.21 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/eijssa.2020.34152.1024 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Neda Abdel Salam Jambi 
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| Abstract | ||||
| Purpose: The purpose is to describe the prevalence of the different types of bullying including bullying physical in nature and psychological, and others that are psycho-physical. Also to describe the factors predisposing to bullying, such as characteristics of student, school and home Methods: Between 2018 and 2019 mother of children aged from 7 to 18 year old were interviewed. The sample was cross sectional convenience sample of n=569. The data gathered estimates the exposure the school children to bullying and used regression analysis to the estimate the relevance of childe factor, (age and self-esteem), school (perception of student of bullying) and home environment (parental closeness). Results: Our study populations were mostly females at 66.8%, and show a mean age of 14.8year. The majority 16-18 years at the percentage of 49.1%, and the youngest of 7-12 years old were at 23.3%. Children Self-reported as ever being a bully at 6.5% and chronic and multiple bullying ranged at the range of.9%-1.4%. The exposure of students to types of bullying is (13.2% for verbal bullying, 9.6% for damage and stealing of belongings, 8.9%. Exposure to social bullying, 5.3% for social isolation, and, 5.8% Group prejudice bullying, 4.7% Cyber-bullying, and 3.5% Sexual bullying. Most of the study children enjoyed closeness of both parents at 62.2% as compared to both parents being away from the children at 13.7%. Discussion: Females are associated more with Physical bullying, while males were associated more with both physical and psychological such as cyber bullying, sexual bullying, and being forced to do things. The association between age and all types of bullying was significant and the strongest for to psychological such as verbal, social isolation, prejudice to groups. Also the association of self-esteem was significant for all types of bullying and stronger for psychological bullying. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| primary grade; bullying; physical; psychological; psych-physical | ||||
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