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Abstrakt Syftet med det här examensarbetet är att undersöka hur lärare och pedagoger arbetar för att motverka mobbning i skolan. Det empiriska materialet är insamlat på en F- 5 grundskola i en större kommun i södra Skåne. En grundskollärare och skolsköterskan på skolan intervjuades, de är både en del av trygghetsgruppen på skolan, en grupp som består av rektor, specialpedagog, kurator, skolsköterska, lärare och fritidspedagoger. Innan intervjuerna observerade vi ett trygghetsmöte. Vår undersökning visade att personalen på vår skola arbetar med ett salutogent tänkande genom att lyfta det positiva i verksamheten och genom att inspirera eleverna till att agera med andras bästa för ögonen, det vill säga ett prosocialt beteende. Personlen på skolan har även genom en enkät tagit reda på vilka platser på skolan eleverna anser som riskfyllda och ökat pedagogtätheten på dessa platser. Personalen implementerar styrdokumenten i deras dagliga arbete, genom att arbeta med värdegrunden i alla ämnen. Syftet besvarades med hjälp av följande frågeställning:Hur arbetar lärare och pedagoger för att förebygga mobbning på skolor? Vad gör skolan för att involvera eleverna i arbetet mot mobbning?Hur används styrdokumenten i lärarnas och pedagogernas arbete?Hur utbildade är lärare och pedagoger i att kunna hantera och upptäcka mobbning?I vår undersökning har vi arbetat med begrepp som mobbning, salutogent tänkande, prosocialt beteende och lekvärdar. Nyckelord: mobbning, salutogent tänkande, prosocialt beteende.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Afknouery is ’n algemene verskynsel onder laerskoolkinders. Alhoewel afknouery dikwels as ’n normale deel van die grootwordproses beskou word, dui verskeie ondersoeke op die negatiewe sosiale, sielkundige en fisiese gevolge wat daarmee gepaard gaan. Wanneer ’n kind geboelie word, raak dit noodwendig die hele gesin. Elke gesin het egter unieke eienskappe of maniere om krisisse (soos afknouery) te hanteer en daarby aan te pas. Gesinsveerkragtigheid verwys na die gesin se vermoë om weerstand te bied teen, en te herstel na, ontwrigtende lewensuitdagings. Die doel van hierdie ondersoek was om vas te stel watter gesinskenmerke geassosieer kan word met goeie aanpassing van gesinne waarvan ’n kind geboelie word. Die studiepopulasie was gesinne met laerskoolkinders wat vir ses maande of langer geboelie is in die voorafgaande drie jaar, en wat in die Suid-Kaap woon. Ma’s het as verteenwoordigers van hul gesinne opgetree en namens die gesinne aan die ondersoek deelgeneem. Agt-en-veertig verteenwoordigers van gesinne het elk sewe selfvoltooiingsvraelyste asook ’n biografiese vraelys met twee oop einde-vrae voltooi. Die resultate van die kwalitatiewe data het getoon dat gesinne veral deur die afknouery geraak is deurdat die kinders wat geboelie is, negatiewe emosies soos hartseer ervaar het. Die meeste gesinne het die afknouery hanteer deur met ’n onderwyser, skoolhoof of die beheerliggaam te gaan praat, of deur raad te gee aan die kind wat geboelie is. Die resultate van die kwantitatiewe data, wat met behulp van korrelasies en regressie-ontledings verkry is, het die volgende gesinsveerkragtigheidskenmerke geïdentifiseer: die kwaliteit van gesinskommunikasie, positiewe kommunikasiepatrone wat omgee en ondersteuning oordra, standvastigheid en duursaamheid van die gesinseenheid, die gesin se gevoel van interne sterk punte, betroubaarheid en die vermoë om saam te werk, die gesin se pogings om vernuwend en aktief te wees, om nuwe dinge te probeer en om te leer, die mate waartoe die gesin roetines gebruik en handhaaf, die gesin se klem op die vasstelling van voorspelbare kommunikasie tussen ouer en kind, die gesin se klem op die vasstelling van voorspelbare roetines om ’n kind se gevoel van selfbestuur en orde te bevorder, asook die gesin se klem op saamwees. Die bevindinge van hierdie ondersoek vul ’n leemte in die literatuur oor gesinne waarvan ’n kind geboelie word. Dit kan nuttig aangewend word in die beplanning en ontwikkeling van intervensies om hierdie gesinne te versterk en meer veerkragtig te maak. Die geïdentifiseerde gesinskenmerke laat ook die moontlikheid oop vir verdere navorsing om hierdie kenmerke in meer besonderhede te ondersoek en te beskryf. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Bullying is a common phenomenon among primary school children. Although bullying is often seen as a relatively normal part of growing up, various studies have indicated its negative social, psychological and physical effects. When a child is bullied, the matter inevitably concerns the whole family. However, every family has unique characteristics or ways of handling and adapting to a crisis (such as bullying). Family resilience refers to the family’s ability to withstand and rebound from disruptive life challenges. The goal of this study was to determine which family characteristics can be associated with positive adaptation in families of which a child had been bullied. The study population consisted of families with primary school children that had been bullied for six months or longer over the past three years, and reside in the Southern Cape. Mothers acted as representatives and participated in the study on behalf of their families. Forty eight family representatives each completed seven self-completing questionnaires as well as a biographical questionnaire containing two open ended questions. Results from the qualitative data, which was analysed using content analysis, showed that families were affected by the bullying, especially in the sense that the children that were bullied experienced negative emotions such as sadness. Most of the families coped with the bulling by talking to a teacher, principal or governing body, or by giving advice to the child that had been bullied. Results from the quantitative data, which was analysed using correlations and regression analyses, indicated positive correlations between family adaptation and quality of family communication, positive communication patterns that convey caring and support, fortitude and durability of the family unit, the family’s sense of internal strengths, dependability and the ability to work together, the family’s efforts to be innovative and active, to experience new things and to learn, the degree to which families use and maintain routines, the family’s emphasis on establishing predictable communication between parent and child, the family’s emphasis on establishing predictable routines to promote a child’s sense of autonomy and order, as well as the family’s emphasis on togetherness. The findings of the study fill a gap in the literature about families in which a child has been bullied. The findings can be utilised in the planning and developing of interventions to strengthen these families and to make them more resilient. The identified family characteristics also leave the possibility of further research to investigate and describe these characteristics in greater detail.

Bullying continues to be a significant problem for children and adolescents. Peers are often involved in bullying as bystanders. Through their actions or inactions, bystanders can support the bullying, or can stop it by defending the person who is victimized. The increasing use and availability of digital communications technology has provided an avenue for electronic bullying. Little is known about the role of peers in electronic bullying, nor about how peers behave across traditional and electronic bullying. Using a developmental contextualism framework to examine how the peer group context and environmental contexts of bullying influence adolescent interactions, this group of studies aimed to identify and explore peer roles in electronic bullying, and to compare peer roles across traditional and electronic bullying contexts. The first study developed and validated an assessment of peer roles in electronic bullying, the Electronic Bullying Roles Questionnaire (EBRQ), based on the traditional bullying roles identified by Salmivalli and colleagues (Salmivalli, Lagerspetz, Björkqvist, Österman, & Kaukiainen, 1996). The second study examined the correspondence between peer bystander roles across traditional and electronic bullying environments. The third study examined peers who intervene in traditional and electronic bullying, by examining whether perceptions of the harmfulness of bullying would influence subsequent defending behaviours. Overall, our findings confirmed that peers are involved in electronic bullying, and that these electronic roles parallel the behaviours and characteristics associated with traditional peer roles. However, our findings also suggest that the unique features of the electronic environment can lead to inconsistencies in adolescent bystander behaviours across bullying contexts. This research has implications for understanding how the peer group behaves when witnessing bullying in both bullying contexts. In addition, this research illuminates some of the similarities and differences between traditional and electronic bullying. It is our hope that this research leads to a greater understanding of the factors related to peer participant roles in both bullying contexts. Understanding traditional and electronic peer roles may help to provide insight into the peer processes involved in bullying, which may in turn inform intervention efforts to encourage adolescents to defend others when confronted with bullying, no matter the context. / Thesis (Ph.D, Psychology) -- Queen's University, 2012-10-14 10:50:15.583

Title: Bullying from the viewpoint of teachers and students at the selected elementary school. Abstract: This paper presents views and observations on the subject of bullying from the viewpoint of teachers and students of the second level of a selected elementary school in Prague 6. The theoretical section contains definition of basic terms. Organisation of the selected school in Prague 6 is described. Research forms a major part of the Thesis. Surveys were carried out by means of questionnaires, observations and interviews. Results show a positive climate at the school created by teachers. Agressive behaviour is not overlooked and is dealt with by each teacher individually. The elementary school cooperates with a citizens group Prev-centrum which prepares preventive programs for individual classes. Bullying does take place at the school but at a much lower level than presented by media and what is common at some other elementary schools. Keywords: bullying, aggression, bullying prevention, preventive programms, solution of bullying

Recentemente, o constructo unidimensional e a confiabilidade do Questionário de Bullying de Olweus (QBO) - versão vítima e versão agressor - foram avaliados com resultados satisfatórios. O objetivo do presente estudo foi o de verificar evidências de validação das versões do QBO para adolescentes brasileiros por meio do constructo de fatores, da validade de critério e da consistência interna. Trata-se de um estudo transversal e a amostra foi composta por 1401 alunos, de ambos os sexos, com idade entre 10 a 17 anos, do 5º ao 9º ano do ensino fundamental de escolas da rede pública. O QBO é um instrumento de autorrelato, composto por 23 itens relacionados à prática de bullying (versão agressor) e por 23 itens relacionados à vitimização (versão vítima). Para definir os fatores a serem testados, por meio da Análise Fatorial Confirmatória (AFC), considerou-se a característica da atitude representada no item. Cada fator foi composto pelos mesmos itens do QBO-vítima e do QBOagressor, sendo: três fatores - direto físico = 9 itens, direto verbal = 8 itens e indireto = 6 itens; e quatro fatores - físico = 6 itens, verbal = 5 itens, relacional = 9 itens e dano = 3 itens. A validade de critério foi realizada através da análise convergente de correlação com o Questionário de Capacidades e Dificuldades-versão criança (SDQ-C) que foi preenchido concomitante ao QBO. A consistência interna foi verificada pela confiabilidade interavaliadores (coeficiente alfa de Cronbach). A AFC foi realizada com o QBO de 858 (61,2%) adolescentes, categorizados como envolvidos com bullying, sendo: 212 (24,7%) exclusivo vítima; 191 (22,2%) exclusivo agressor e 455 (53%) vítima-agressor. Em ambas as versões, os ajustes da AFC foram considerados satisfatórios, com índices semelhantes tanto para três fatores quanto para quatro fatores. No entanto, a confiabilidade do modelo de três fatores do QBO, para ambas as versões, apresentou melhores coeficientes (α >0,700) e foi considerado satisfatório. A análise de convergência do QBO unidimensional com o SDQ-C demonstrou correlação significativa moderada (r > 0,300) para os domínios conduta com o QBO agressor; relacionamento com o QBO vítima, tanto para meninos quanto para as meninas. Os resultados evidenciaram a possibilidade de identificar as diferentes formas de bullying com base no modelo de três fatores do QBO, definidos como direto físico, direto verbal e indireto. A relevância em definir os fatores das versões do QBO está em aprimorar a avaliação das diferentes formas de bullying, com instrumento validado em nosso meio e, assim, contribuir para especificar diferentes estratégias de intervenção para prevenir o bullying escolar. / Bullying behavioral evaluation with a validated instrument in Brazil is scarce. Recently, the one-dimensional construct and the reliability of the Olweus Bullying Questionnaire (OBQ) - victim and aggressor version - were evaluated with satisfactory results. The objective of the present study was to verify validation evidences of the OBQ versions for Brazilian adolescents through the construct of factors, the criterion validity and the internal consistency. This is a cross-sectional study and the sample was composed of 1401 students of both sexes, aged 10 to 17 years, from the 5th to the 9th grade of elementary school in public schools. The OBQ is a self-report instrument, composed of 23 items related to bullying (aggressor version) and 23 items related to victimization (victim version). To define the factors to be tested through the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), we took into consideration the characteristic of the attitude represented in the item. Each factor was composed of the same OBQ-victim and OBQ-aggressor items, being: three factors - direct physical = 9 items, direct verbal = 8 items and indirect = 6 items; and four factors - physical = 6 items, verbal = 5 items, relational = 9 items and damage = 3 items. Criterion validity was performed through the convergent analysis of correlation with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire - child version (SDQ-C) that was completed concomitantly with the OBQ. The internal consistency was verified by inter-rater reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient). The AFC was performed with the OBQ of 858 (61.2%) adolescents categorized as being involved in bullying, being: 212 (24.7%) exclusive victim; 191 (22.2) exclusive aggressor and 455 (53%) victimaggressor. In both versions, AFC adjustments were considered satisfactory with similar indices for the three factors and the four factors. However, the reliability of the three factor OBQ model for both versions had better coefficients (α > 0.700) and was considered satisfactory. The convergence analysis of the unidimensional OBQ with the SDQ-C demonstrated a moderate significant correlation (r > 0.300) for the conduct domains with the aggressor OBQ; in relation to the victim OBQ, for both boys and girls. The results show the possibility of identifying the different forms of bullying based on the three factor model of OBQ, defined as direct physical, verbal direct and indirect. The relevance of defining the factors of the OBQ versions is in improving the evaluation of the different forms of bullying, with a validated instrument in our environment, and thus contributing to specify different intervention strategies to prevent school bullying.

Bullying behaviors can have lasting adverse consequences for teachers, victims, offenders, and bystanders. Teachers are often not prepared with the knowledge required for appropriate interventions. The purpose of this study was to understand teachers' perceptions of bullying in one of the largest urban school districts in the United States. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, which holds that individuals impact and should be impacted by various environmental systems around them, the study was focused on teachers' understanding of detection and intervention of bullying in the school setting. A qualitative single case study design was used. Fifteen urban, middle school teachers who reported having experience with bullying behaviors were recruited using purposive sampling. Data were collected through 60-minute, individual, semistructured interviews and a review of documents pertaining to bullying. Data were analyzed employing Braun's and Clarke's thematic analysis. All data were examined for patterns or commonalities across the various sources for emergent themes. The themes that emerged are signs of bullying, difficulty in identifying bullying, confidence in identifying bullying, initial steps to intervene, confidence in intervening, school policies and initiatives, perceptions of regulations and initiatives, and need for education and training. Teachers' perceptions may reflect an understanding of school bullying that involves a range of factors, including individual, school, community, and familial elements. Results of this study may support social change by serving as a basis for professional development for preparing teachers to recognize and intervene in school bullying, thereby allowing students to learn in nonthreatening school environments.

Detta examensarbete belyser hur svenska skolor arbetar mot mobbning. Mobbning är ett stort problem som orsakar stor oro bland skolbarn. 1969 ville läkaren Peter-Paul Heinemann uppmärksamma mobbning då han upptäckte att många barn blev mobbade och att vuxna inte brydde sig. 1973 forskade psykologen Dan Olweus kring pojkars beteende kring mobbning. Detta var början till antimobbningsarbetet. Det finns ett flertal antimobbningsprogram och jag har valt att undersöka Friendsprogrammet och Olweusprogrammet. Skolverket har även sammanställt en rapport rörande effekterna av dessa program. Jag ville också undersöka hur barn definierar ordet mobbning. För att komma fram till undersökningsresultat rörande dessa två ovanstående antimobbningsprogram och barns definiering av begreppet mobbning har jag forskat i vetenskapliga  undersökningar och litteratur samt även utfört intervjuer med barn i åldrarna 7-9 år och skolpersonal. Jag valde två skolor som arbetar med dessa två program och barnintervjuerna gjordes med tillåtelse av barnens föräldrar. Intervjusvaren jämfördes sedan med de vetenskapliga rapporterna och litteraturen. Slutsatsen av min undersökning är att dessa två program har både för- och nackdelar. Olweusprogrammet kräver resurser och tid. Friendsprogrammet involverar barnen som riskerar att få en utsatt position. Barnen kunde utan problem definiera innebörden av mobbning.