The purpose of this study is to conduct an investigation for the structural relationship among parent-child relationship, teacher-student relationship, ego-resiliency, experience of peer bullying and experience of peer victimization perceived by eleme...
The purpose of this study is to conduct an investigation for the structural relationship among parent-child relationship, teacher-student relationship, ego-resiliency, experience of peer bullying and experience of peer victimization perceived by elementary school children. On the basis of the result, this study attempted to develop a peer bullying prevention program for each class and verify its effectiveness.
First, for a structural analysis of variables influencing peer bullying and peer victimization, students from the 4th to 6th grade in Gyeong-gi, Gyeong-nam, Gyeong-buk, Seoul, Dae-gu, and Chung-buk were surveyed vis-a-vis questionnaires on the internet from May 29th to Jun 15th in 2012. They answered on a peer victimization scale, peer bullying scale, parent-child relationship scale, teacher-student relationship scale, and an ego-resiliency scale. A total of 1,178 student responses were used in the final analysis. Through using SPSS 18.0, the mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis showed normal distribution in all variables, and the estimated coefficient of Cronbach alpha showed that the reliability of all the measures used met the standards. A variance-covariance matrix of this sample was analyzed using AMOS 18.0 with the maximum likelihood minimization function. The goodness of fit was evaluated via SRMR, RMSEA, with a 90% confidence interval, CFI, TLI.
The main results were as follows:
Firstly, the parent-child relationship perceived by elementary school students is a significant internal variable directly affecting their experience of peer victimization and ego-resiliency. And their ego-resiliency is a significant internal variable directly affecting their experience of peer victimization and peer bullying. It is also an intervening variable between the receptive parent-child relationship perceived by elementary school students and their peer bullying.
Secondly, the teacher-student relationship perceived by elementary school students is a significant internal variable directly affecting their experience of peer bullying and ego-resiliency. And their ego-resiliency is a significant internal variable directly affecting their experience of peer victimization and peer bullying. It is also an intervening variable between the teacher-student relationship perceived by elementary school students and their peer bullying.
Thirdly, the parent-child relationship perceived by elementary school students directly affects their teacher-student relationship.
Lastly, peer victimization experienced by elementary school students directly affects their peer bullying.
As a result of the structural analysis, it was found that the ego-resiliency of elementary school students took a role of an intervening variable between the parent-child relationship and peer bullying and peer victimization. It also did between the teacher-student relationship and peer bullying and peer victimization. Therefore, an ego-resiliency enhancement program was developed for prevention of peer bullying.
Based on advanced research and the survey of teachers' demand, the bibliotherapy program was developed for ego-resiliency enhancement and prevention of peer bullying. It was made up of 8 sessions, 20 minutes a day, 2 days made up 1 session for reading time in the morning to perform for each class. The effectiveness of the bibliotherapy program was verified as follows. 156 students sampled from 6 classes of 2 elementary schools in Dae-gu were divided into experimental group Ⅰ, experimental group Ⅱ, and a controlled group: 2 classes of experimental group Ⅰ were for the bibliotherapy program, 2 classes of experimental group Ⅱ were for reading, 2 classes of the controlled group without any special program. The students in experimental group Ⅰ received 8 sessions of bibliotherapy for 4 weeks. To verify the effect of the program, ego-resiliency scales, peer victimization scales and peer bullying scales were used for pre test and post test, and for a later test four weeks afterward. Data analyzed by SPSS 18.0 confirmed that all three scales showed homogeneity between groups on the pre test, and MANCOVA confirmed that the pre test score didn't affect the post test and later test. To know the difference of the three groups, the score of the post test and later test was analyzed by one-way ANOVA.
The result of verifying the effectiveness of the classroom based ego-resiliency enhancement bibliotherapy program for peer bullying prevention was as follows.
Firstly, the classroom based ego-resiliency enhancement bibliotherapy program for peer bullying prevention had an effect on enhancing ego-resiliency on elementary school students. Although experimental group Ⅱ, only for reading, differed from experimental group Ⅰ, for bibliotherapy, the elementary students in experimental group Ⅱ showed enhanced ego-resiliency, too.
Secondly, the classroom based ego-resiliency enhancement bibliotherapy program for peer bullying prevention had an effect on reducing the experience of peer victimization.
Thirdly, the classroom based the ego-resiliency enhancement bibliotherapy program for peer bullying prevention had an effect on reducing the experience of peer bullying. Although experimental group Ⅱ, only for reading, differed from experimental group Ⅰ, for bibliotherapy, the reading program had an effect on reducing the experience of peer bullying, too.
In conclusion, it was confirmed that the ego-resiliency of elementary school students took a role of an intervening variable between the parent-child relationship and the teacher-student relationship affecting peer bullying and peer victimization. On the basis of that result, the classroom based ego-resiliency enhancement bibliotherapy program for peer bullying prevention was developed, and it had an effect on prevention of peer bullying on elementary school students.