Designing the Integrated Anti-Bullying Program and Determination of Its Effectiveness in Reducing of Victimization of Middle School Students

• Main Authors: Rahim Badri, Seyed adnan Hosseini, Touraj Hashemi, Mir Mahmoud Mir Nasab
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch 2018-05-01
• Series: آموزش و ارزشیابی
• Subjects: bullying; integrated anti-bullying program; victimization
• Online Access: http://jinev.iaut.ac.ir/article_541310_3dcf69d58ad40a981133992c8a7d0fb1.pdf
• ISSN: 2345-6299; 2476-5627

The purpose of this study was to designing the integrated Anti-bullying program and determination of its effectiveness in reducing of victimization of middle school student’s city of Sanandaj in academic year of 2015-16. The research method was semi experimental with pre-test, post-test plan and a control group. For this purpose, two schools were chosen with purposive sampling method, one as the experimental and another as a control group. Then an anti-bullying program designed with separate sessions for each of groups of school staff, teachers, students and parents. Then the Iranian form of victimization scale (B.V.S), as the pre-test study, was conducted at the both schools for all students. The anti-bullying program in experimental school were taught for each of the groups separately and in the last stage post-test were conducted in both schools. Data analyzed with analysis of covariance using SPSS software. The results showed the effectiveness of anti-bullying program in reducing three verbal, physical and emotional dimension of victimization in experimental school(P<0/05). In addition, program showed higher effectiveness in reducing verbal and physical victimization compared with emotional form. Given these findings using such comprehensive anti-bullying programs by education authorities at the all country's schools is recommended.