Factors and types of school violence according the point of view of middle school students - A Field study in some middle schools of Tizi ouzou province- Algeria

Abstract

The objective of this study is to know the point of view of the middle school students about the factors of violence, and their effects on the different types of violence in school environment, using the descriptive method. The study was verified through the use of the methodological procedures. And we have applied it on sample (200) middle school students. This study was chosen in a random way. Concerning the tools used in this study, we find a questionnaire about the different forms of school violence that was realised by the researcher, and a scale of the factors of the behaviour of school violence which was realised by 'Ibrahim Said Al-Khouli' (2008).

The results of the hypothesis of the study concluded that all variables of violence factors have an impact on all levels of school violence (verbal violence, physical violence, symbolic violence, violence against property, sexual harassment) as seen by middle school students, and family factors came in the first degree, and followed the media and cultural factors are in the second degree, and then the factors that refer to the group of comrades in the third degree, then the psychological factors in the fourth degree, and the school factors came as the lowest degree.