School Bullying The Case of Selected Schools in Addis Ababa
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2013-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The study investigated the prevalence ,the nature and attitudes of bullying among students in grades 11 and
12 from four selected schools in Addis Ababa based on convenience & ownership type namely Yekatit-12 &
Medhanialem schools (Government owned), Holy Trinity(Faith based), Vision Academy(Private). A self
report questionnaire was used to obtain data from a convenience sample of 450 students with the average age
of 17.Two percent reported to have been bullied and bully others on regular basis. Nine percent had watched
others got bullied since school had started this year. Almost half the respondents believed they were bullied
for no particular reason while 10% of them were bullied because of their gender, their physical appearances
(Height or weight).Religion and ethnicity had no or minimal relationship with bully-related experiences. Chisquare
tests indicated impact of getting bullied to have no significant difference among school types .A one
way analysis of variance yielded, Vision Academy, a private school, to have more bully-related experiences
than the faith and government owned school types. The classroom and the way to/from schools had been
reported to be the most susceptible spots for bullying. A two way analysis of variance had yielded a
statistically significant relationship between school type and attitude towards bullying with large effect size
(eta=.14) implying a faith based school to have more pro-bullying attitude. Students indeed had gone through
the experience of bullying though it was not clear how distressful and hurtful the experience was and there
were no mechanisms in any of the schools to channel incidents as they crop up
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