Kartal, Hülya Uludağ Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - İlköğretim Bölümü, Sınıf Öğretmenliği Anabilim Dalı, Turkey , Bilgin, Asude Uludağ Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - İlköğretim Bölümü, Sınıf Öğretmenliği Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

The Perceptions of Elementary Students about the Reasons for Bullying

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A person is being bullied when he or she is exposed repeatedly and over time to negative actions on the part of one or more persons. Incidents of bullying are frequent occurrences for many children at school. This study was intended to investigate the perceptions of the elementary students about the reasons for bullying in the school. For this purpose 688 students from 4-8th. Grades of an elementary school were given a questionnaire “Colorado School Climate Survey”. The data was analyzed in terms of frequencies and percentiles. The results revealed that the most frequently reported reason was being physically weak (for bullies 56.5%, bullyvictims 52.9%, victims 48.6%), being fat (for victims bully-victims 45.1%, victims 42.6%) and being poor (for bully-victims 43.2%, victims 41.5%, neither bully nor victims 39.4%). Almost half of the girls reported that the reasons of bullying are being short, being poor and being fat. Boys reported these reasons physical weakness, being fat and being skinny. According to neither bullies nor victims the reasons of bullying are physical weakness, poorness, and bad wearing. Victims also reported that first reason is physical weakness. Bullies reported that children without friends, short and poor children mostly bullied. Bully/victims again talked about physical weakness.

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Reasons for bullying , elementary school , school climate

Gaziantep University Journal Of Social Sciences

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