Bullying Behaviour Among Primary School Pupils in Gwagwalada Area Council of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
ABSTRACT
The study investigated the Bullying behaviour among primary school pupils in Gwagwalada Area Council of Federal Capital Territory Abuja. Five research questions and three null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. The design of the study was descriptive survey design.
The sample was made up of 400 pupils which comprises of male and female from urban and rural primary schools in the study area. A self constructed questionnaire titled Bullying Behaviour Questionnaire (BBQ) was the instrument used in the study to elicit bullying manifestation of pupils in primary school.
The items of the questionnaire was validated by experts in Childhood Education and Measurement and evaluation from Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Reliability coefficient of BBQ was established by testing and the estimate of internal consistency of the instrument was established by Cronbach alpha procedure. The overall reliability obtained was 0.83 mean, standard deviation was used for research questions while t-test was used to analyse the hypotheses.
Major findings of the study showed that different types of bullying are exhibited in primary school, causes of bullying comes from both home and school, Gender and location have significant influence on bullying behaviour, and also that bullying influence the bullied and bullies behaviour, conclusions were drawn and educational implications were discussed.
Among the recommendations made were: Teacher should undergo some training on strategies of curbing bulling in primary schools, parents should censor the films children watch, government should built enough classroom for schools and so on.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE i
APPROVAL PAGE ii
CERTIFICATION iii
DEDICATION iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v
TABLE OF CONTENTS vi
LIST OF TABLES ix
ABSTRACT
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study 1
Statement of the Problem 7
Purpose of the Study 8
Significance of the Study 9
Scope of the Study 12
Research Questions 12
Hypotheses 13
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Conceptual Framework 14
Concept of Primary School Education/Pupils 14
Concept of Bullying 16
Concept of Location 31
Concept of Gender 34
Theoretical Framework 36
Social Cognitive Theory by Albert Bandura, 1963 36
Review of Empirical Studies 38
Studies on Bullying in Schools 38
Studies on Gender and Bullying 40
Studies on Location and Bullying 43
Summary of Literature Review 44
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHOD
Design of the Study 45
Area of the Study 45
Population of the study 46
Sample and Sampling Technique 46
Instrument for Data Collection 47
Validation of the Instrument 48
Reliability of the Instrument 48
Method of Data Collection 49
Method of Data Analysis 49
CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS 50
CHAPTER FIVE: DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION, EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS, RECOMMENDATION AND SUMMARY OF THE STUDY
Discussion of Results 64
Conclusions 68
Educational Implications of the Findings 69
Recommendations 70
Limitations of the Study 71
Suggestions for Further Studies 72
Summary of the Study 72
REFERENCES 75
APPENDICES 86
INTRODUCTION
Pupils are priceless assets and most essential in primary school. It is absolutely necessary to direct pupils to exhibit acceptable attitude and behaviour within and outside the school.
In an attempt to achieve an organised and peaceful school environment and maintain law and order, school management specifies rules and regulations to guide the activities of members of the educational organization.
Pupils’ discipline is a prerequisite to almost everything a school has to offer children. Selfert & Vormberg, (2002) link discipline with both the culture and climate of the school thus: “in order for a satisfactory climate to exist within a school, a certain level of discipline must exist”.
In schools where discipline is a serious problem, for example, where pupils bully others, parents can transfer their children to “better” primary schools because the well behaved usually perform well in school.
The reason for parents’ intervention is because the primary school is expected to be a conducive environment for pupils to learn, free of intimidation, fear and insecurity.
As a result of this worrying trend of the perceived school discipline issue, the government in its intervention has made the primary school to be a place where the character, sound attitudes and morals are moulded in the children, and this represents one of the core objectives of this system of education (Nwoye 2010).
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