University Violence in Jordan: PTSD Consequences

Damra, Jalal K.; Ghbari, Thaer A.

doi:10.1080/15325024.2013.788955

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“…Ahmad et al (2000) cross-validated the PTSS-C scale using the Child Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Reaction – Index (CPSDR-I) and the structured assessment Interview for Adolescents and Children. In the current study, we adopted the PTSS-C scale that was previously applied to refugee and non-immigrant children in Jordan by Damra and his colleagues (2014).…”

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The relationship between peer bullying and PTSS in refugee schoolchildren.

Damra¹,

Akour²,

Ghbari³

2023

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Objective: This study explored the relationship between Peer bullying (PB) and Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology (PTSS) in a sample of refugee Syrian schoolchildren in Jordanian schools. Method:The study sample was composed of 116 Syrian refugees (female = 62, 53.4% male = 54, 46.6%) ages 9-18 years with a mean age of 14.5 years (SD 1.18) who had been in Jordan for at least 3 years and were studying in five public schools (three for females and two for males) located in Irbid and Mafraq governorates in the northern area of Jordan between the June 14, 2018 and the March 20, 2019. Results: The results indicated that 116 children out of 180 (64.4%) suffer from high levels of PB (physical M = 1.47, verbal M = 1.41, and relational M = 1.35). The most prevailing type of bullying was the physical type, followed by the verbal and the relational types. Moreover, the three types of PB were positively and significantly correlated with PTSS (physical, r = .20, p , .05, verbal, r = .26, p , .01, relational, r = .22, p , .05), and (total PB, r = .43, p , .05). PB accounted for 14% of the variability in PTSS. Finally, the results did not indicate any significant differences in PB by gender, age, length of exposure to PB, living conditions, or disability. Conclusions: This study may provide a deeper understanding of the need to develop more thorough, institutionalized as well individualized, interventions to reduce PB against schoolchildren from a refugee background in schools. Clinical Impact StatementStudying the relationship between peer bullying for refugee schoolchildren and PTSS may contribute to enhancing the school environments and promoting safety and security settings. This can help in designing and implementing specialized interventions to prevent bullying against vulnerable students.

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The relationship between peer bullying and PTSS in refugee schoolchildren.

Damra¹,

Akour²,

Ghbari³

2023

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Violence against Teachers in Jordanian Schools

Alzyoud

Al-Ali

Tareef

2016

ESJ

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This aim of this study is to examine the reasons for violence against teachers in Jordan from the perspective of high school students. The study followed a qualitative research approach by interviewing (50) students from grade twelve. Students were recruited in this study via the convenience sampling approach. The study revealed that teachers, school administration, school environment, media, and family conditions, were the major causes of student's violence against teachers. Teachers who experienced violence from students are the cause of this violence due to their actions and practices. Teachers are often exhausted, dispassionate, and overloaded with teaching and administrative duties. As a result, these duties sometimes hinder them not to communicate with students nicely or help students in solving their problems. Other times, students are violent against teachers because some teachers have low academic and educational performances. They are unable to offer counselling and psychological support to students from certain backgrounds. Subsequently, some students lack proper morals and discipline. School administrators are to be held responsible for the violence against teachers because they are unable to meet the students' needs.

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threatening a teacher

Hassan

2021

JFacMedBagdad

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Abstract Background: Threatening teachers increases teacher stress and impairs emotional well-being. There are many reasons for violence against teachers. There are communication errors and conceptual differences in applying the rules that emphasizes corporal punishment rather than persuasive punishment. Also, it is related to a parent complaint that expresses Parents' belief in the education their child received in school is getting weaker. In addition to the incompetence that teachers must implement, like personal, social and professional aspects that make students offend teachers. Threatening someone considered as physical aggression. Aggression is any behavior intended to harm another person that wishes to avoid such harm High rates of aggression were reported recently in Iraq, especially after wars. Some studies have shown that students, whose friends engage in negative activities such as dropping out of school and have lower academic performance, may engage in aggressive activities toward teachers and/or other students. Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of students’ aggressive act towards teachers. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was carried out in Al-Sadr city in Baghdad. A total of 720 adolescent secondary schools students from both genders were included in the study. They were selected by multistage random sampling. Their age was ranged from 13-21 years. Data was collected from 1st of February 2019 to 30 of April 2019 through a self-reported questionnaire (Aggression-Problem Behavior Frequency Scale). Results: The mean age of participants was 16.2±2.04 years. Of all participants, 84.3% were assessed to be aggressive. There was a significant difference between aggressive act (threatening a teacher) and sex, school type, grade, history of absence from school and employed mother,(P=0.038, 0.009, 0.0001,p= 0.02 and p=0.018, respectively). 10% of male threatening a teacher. Conclusion: A high prevalence of aggression among students was found. Threatening a teacher was dominant among male students, intermediate schools, 4th grade, students with history of absence from school, and not employed mother.

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University Violence in Jordan: PTSD Consequences

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The relationship between peer bullying and PTSS in refugee schoolchildren.

The relationship between peer bullying and PTSS in refugee schoolchildren.

Violence against Teachers in Jordanian Schools

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