Impact of School Violence on Students’ Depression and Delinquency: The Mediating Role of Self-concept

• Other Authors: Feng, Shu (author.)
• Format: Others
• Language: English; Chinese
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1292245

目標： === 在過去幾十年，校園暴力問題已得到了越來越廣泛的關註。研究者指出，校園暴力受害以及目睹校園暴力有可能給學生帶來心理以及行為方面的不良影響。然而，目前關於校園暴力影響的研究主要關註校園暴力受害對於學生的直接影響，很少有研究關註校園暴力影響的個人調節機制。本研究旨在填補這壹研究空缺，探索個人機制是否會調節校園暴力受害以及目睹校園暴力給學生帶來的心理以及行為方面的不良影響。 === 方法： === 本研究采取問卷調查的研究方法，用結構方程模型進行數據分析。本研究的自變量是校園暴力受害以及目睹校園暴力，因變量是學生的抑郁水平以及問題行為。本研究設置的中介變量為學生的自我概念，包括自尊和自我效能兩個方面。此外，本研究還檢驗了性別的調節因素。 === 結果： === 本研究將校園暴力受害具體分為四個形式以及種類：1.受到朋輩暴力、2.目睹朋輩暴力、3.受到老師暴力以及4.目睹老師暴力。結果表明，學生目睹暴力比直接受到暴力更為普遍，此外，朋輩相關暴力比老師相關暴力的發生情況更為普遍。 === 學生的問題行為受校園暴力受害及目睹校園暴力的直接影響，學生的抑郁水平受校園暴力受害及目睹校園暴力的間接影響，自我概念為中介變量。性別差異也在本研究中得到了壹定的體現。 === 討論： === 本研究重點關註校園暴力的結果機制，著眼於個體主觀能動性以及社會工作學科的積極取向。本研究對社會工作理論及實踐有壹定的參考意義。在校園暴力研究及實踐領域，個人調節機制的引入，可以幫助我們更好地理解問題。 === Purpose: === School violence problem has received considerable public attention during the past few decades. Researchers have pointed out that school violence victimization and witness would cause both psychological and behavioral problems for students. However, to date, research on outcomes of school violence has been mainly discussing the direct impact of school violence on students’ well-being. Few empirical studies were conducted to explore students’ personal mechanisms that might regulate the impact of school violence victimization. The current study aimed to fill this research gap and to find out how the personal mechanism (i.e. self-concept) might mediate the impact of school violence victimization and witness on individual students’ psychological and behavioral well-being (i.e. depression and delinquency). === Method: === The survey design was employed in the current study. Using the Structural Equation Modeling method, two dimensions of self-concept, i.e. self-esteem and self-efficacy (intervening endogenous variables), were investigated as the personal mechanism that might mediate the relationship between school violence victimization/witness (exogenous variables) and students’ depression/delinquency (pure endogenous variables). The possible moderating effect of gender was also examined in the current study. === Result: === School violence victimization was elaborated into four different types and forms in the current study, i.e. 1) peer-victimization, 2) peer-witness, 3) teacher-victimization and 4) teacher-witness. School violence witness was found to be more prevalent === Discussion: === The current study focused on the school violence outcome mechanism. The human agency perspective and the positive orientation of social work were implied. It is believed that the current study contributed to both social work theory and practice in the === Feng, Shu. === Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2016. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves ). === Abstracts also in Chinese. === Title from PDF title page (viewed on …). === Detailed summary in vernacular field only. === Detailed summary in vernacular field only. === Detailed summary in vernacular field only. === Detailed summary in vernacular field only. === Detailed summary in vernacular field only. === Detailed summary in vernacular field only. === Detailed summary in vernacular field only. === Detailed summary in vernacular field only. === Detailed summary in vernacular field only.