Bullying and its relationship to school adaptation among secondary school students

Abstract

  The aim of the current research is to reveal the relationship between bullying and school adaptation among secondary school students and the importance of the two variables at this stage in particular; therefore, its objectives were determined as follows:

1- Identifying school bullying behavior among secondary school students.

2- Identifying the school adaptation of secondary school students.

3- The level of the correlation between bullying behavior and school adaptation among secondary school students.

In order to achieve the objectives, the descriptive approach was used for its suitability to the subject of the research, and the sample of research consisted of (100) female students from the secondary stages. The researcher adopted the 2007 Subhayen bullying scale, which consisted of (38) items, and also adopted the Tareq Raouf scale, which consisted of (30) items. Their psychometric properties were found, as well as a statistical treatment, and the following results were reached:

1- The presence of bullying behavior in our research sample.

2- Female students suffer from disturbances in school adaptation.

3- There is a direct correlation between bullying and school adaptation, meaning that school adaptation decreases as bullying increases in the school environment.