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APA highlights potential predictors of violence directed against K-12 teachers, proposes strategies to promote safe classrooms and schools, and encourages a national research agenda for future policy.
Aug 21, 2023 · Teacher-directed violence and teacher turnover can significantly impact school life for students, staff, and communities. Using Wang and Degol's school climate framework, we examined school characteristics that contribute to teacher-directed violence and related turnover.
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All information on participants’ personal and school information was obtained through self-report. The sample included 117 K-12 educators across the state of Illinois. Seventy-nine female teachers and 29 male teachers completed the survey. Years of experience ranged from 1 to 42 years (mean = 16 years). A majority of participants (N= 69) taught nin...
To assess teacher-directed violence, the survey developed by McMahon et al. (2014) for the American Psychological Association Classroom Violence Directed Against Teachers Task Force was used. Questions for this survey included “Have you experienced any of these types of violence from your students in the past 6 months?” which is followed by a list ...
To assess teachers’ stress at work and in their personal lives, the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) was used. The TSI (Fimian 1988) is a measure of teacher stress or “work stress” in 10 different major areas. The scale consists of 49 items, with each item rated on a 5-point Likert scale from 1 (no strength or noticeable) to 5 (major strength or extr...
Following IRB approval, data was collected through Qualtrics, a web-based survey program (Qualtrics, Provo, UT). An email invitation was sent to educators through email listservs, as well as through email addresses obtained from school district websites in the state of Illinois. Educators from 17 different school districts participated in the study...
- Christina Bounds, Lyndsay N. Jenkins
- 2018
Aug 6, 2019 · The results indicate that student-perpetrated violence against teachers is negatively associated with perceived levels of support from school management, while parent-perpetrated violence against teachers is positively associated with satisfaction with student-teacher relationships, and negatively associated with both perceived levels of ...
Our findings reveal the role played by working conditions in determining teachers’ experience of violence: greater job demands are associated with most offense types, whereas the availability of diffused social support at school is associated with lower rates of harassment.
Oct 23, 2024 · Background Few studies have examined the inter-relationships between teacher and student mental health. We aimed to examine associations between teacher distress and student mental health difficulties and if student perceptions of school safety moderate these associations. Method Data from 23,568 students in grades 6–12 and 1,478 teachers from 268 schools participating in the School Mental ...
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Apr 25, 2016 · Teacher-directed violence, or violence found in a school setting that involves teacher victimization (Espelage et al. in The American Psychologist, 68 (2), 75–87, 2011), is a relatively new area of study in education.
