Bullying educational program and its effect on self-efficacy and self-esteem among primary school pupils

Elashry, Manar

doi:10.21608/pssjn.2025.357388.1347

Bullying educational program and its effect on self-efficacy and self-esteem among primary school pupils

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Manar Elashry

Port said university

10.21608/pssjn.2025.357388.1347

Abstract

Background: Bullying is aggressive behavior that is carried out intentionally and repeatedly to harm another party. While, self-efficacy level determines the degree whether the students being bullied or victimized, and self-esteem is the most crucial characteristic of bullying Aim: The present study aims to examine the effect of bullying educational program on self-efficacy and self-esteem among primary school students. Subjects and method: Design: the current study used a quasi-experimental research design. Setting: The study was conducted in at five primary schools covering five districts of Port-Said city with simple random sample. Tools: Three tools used for data collection consisted of, Tool Ⅰ include two parts, part one socio-demographic characteristics of the studied students, the second part The Child Adolescent Bullying Scale, Tool II General Self-Efficacy Scale, and Tool Ⅲ Self-esteem Scale for school children. Results: 15.2% of the studied students had moderate level of exposure to bullying at pre-program. While changed to 66% of them had low level of exposure to bullying post-program. Also, 56.4% of them had low level of self-efficacy at pre-program which changed to 68.8% of them had high level of self-efficacy post-program. Additionally, 13.6% of the studied students had low level of self-esteem at pre-program. While changed to be 64.0% of them had high level of self- esteem post-program. Conclusion: The bullying educational program improved primary school students’ self-efficacy and self-esteem with highly statistically differences. Recommendations: design bulling educational program and its effect on self-efficacy and self-esteem among primary school students in different Egyptian governorates.

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Community Health Nursing

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