Strategies for high school pupils to cope with violent behaviors directed at them by teachers

Abstract

The study aims to identify coping strategies with violent behaviors directed by teachers towards pupils in secondary schools in the town of BourjBOunama, the district of Tissemssilet, as well as the differences between the two sexes at dealing with this concept. This study relied on the descriptive approach, and on a questionnaire to collect data. For this purpose, this latter has been distributed to a sample of 92 pupils who were randomly selected. The problem of this study was formulated through the following questions: 1.What are the strategies used by pupils to cope with the violent behavior of teachers? 2.Are there statistically significant differences between males and females in the coping strategies used with violent behavior from teachers? Thus, the study resulted in the existence of strategies to cope with violent behaviors directed by teachers towards their pupils, and the results were as follows: The strategies that students use to cope with violent behaviors issued by their teachers are to seek social support, self control and to alter behavior. In addition to that, the study also revealed that there are no statistically significant differences between the two sexes in the strategies used to deal with violence directed at them by their teachers. Based on the results of this study, some recommendations were made to improve this academic relationship.