Efficacy of Bullying Prevention Program for School Teachers

Abstract

Abstract he present study assesses the efficacy of bullying prevention program for school teachers. In this study (2x3) between and within experimental research design was used, conducted by forming two groups of participants i.e., control and experimental group and data was assigned randomly into two groups through single blind method. A sample of (N=58) both male and female gender of age range 25-30, with Mean age 26.99 and Standard Deviation 1.52, school teachers who teaches 6-10 class, from private and government schools were taken through convenient sampling method. The intervention developed by UNICEF, Addressing Bulling in school; Training manual, Module 1 Teacher Training, was given. Identifying Bullying Questionnaire was administered at different intervals (pre, post and follow-up) to identify different bullying scenarios. The Short Handling Bullying Questionnaire scale w as administered to explore teacher’s s trategies regarding bullying cases, pre, post and follow-up assessment was done. S ix-day training of almost an hour once a week was conducted. The 2x3 mixed factorial analysis was performed to assess main and interaction effect. The results showed, that teachers ability to identify and handle bullying has been significantly improved. These results also showed an effectiveness of the manual (UNICEF) which can be further use in future researches.