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Sadia Saleem; Siham Amjad; Halima Khurshid; Sayyeda Taskeen Zahra; Sara Subhan; Hina Nawaz – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2024
This paper describes and evaluates the procedure for the development and validation of the bullying victimisation scale for Pakistani young people aged 12-18 years. During phase I, a total of 60 participants aged from 13 to 17 years were selected by using a multistage sampling strategy for item generation for bullying victimisation. In phase II,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Grade 8
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Ana Cerqueira; Fábio Botelho Guedes; Tania Gaspar; Emmanuelle Godeau; Celeste Simões; Margarida Gaspar de Matos – Continuity in Education, 2024
The experience of living with a chronic condition (CC) impacts adolescents' psychological and social adjustment and overall functioning. Considering the increased risk of psychosocial challenges among adolescents with CC, this study aimed to enhance our understanding of the psychological and social factors that impact their quality of life. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Quality of Life, Chronic Illness
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Yablon, Yaacov B. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The relation between students' social goals and their willingness to seek help for school violence was examined. Four hundred and sixty-two students from sixth, eighth, and tenth grades responded to vignettes used to assess willingness to seek help from teachers and friends for dealing with relational and physical violence. Intimacy goals enhanced…
Descriptors: Violence, Student Attitudes, Social Status, Vignettes
Townsend, Megan – Wake County Public School System, 2014
The 2013 North Carolina Youth Risk Behavior Survey (NCYRBS) was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and adapted by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) to monitor health-risk behaviors and to measure progress toward achieving Healthy North Carolina 2020 objectives. The survey, administered in…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Risk, Public Health, Health Promotion
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Smothers, Melissa Kraemer; Smothers, D. Brian – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2011
In this study, a nonprofit community mental health clinic developed a socioecological model of sexual abuse prevention that was implemented in a public school. The goal of the program was to promote and create community change within individuals and the school community by reducing tolerance of sexual violence and sexual harassment. Participants…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse, Prevention
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Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
The aim of this study has been to examine the effect of retrospective report of political violence during the first Intifada (1987-1993) on psychological adjustment of 1185 Palestinian adolescents (10th to 12th graders) seven years after the first Intifada had ended. Analysis of the inter-relations was conducted between self-reported measures of…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Adolescents, Grade 12, Depression (Psychology)
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Flannery, Daniel J.; Wester, Kelly L.; Singer, Mark I. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
Exposure to violence at school remains a significant problem for children and adolescents. This study examined the relationship between exposure to violence at school and child reports of psychological trauma symptoms and violent behavior. The sample consisted of children in grades 3 through 12 in 17 public schools from two different states. Rates…
Descriptors: Violence, Well Being, Mental Health, Educational Environment