Elementary principals’ perceptions and attitudes regarding bully prevention in their Schools in Hail city

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The purpose of this study was to determine elementary principals’ perceptions and attitudes regarding bully prevention in their Schools in Hail City.

A second purpose of this study was to understand if there a link between elementary principals’ perceptions regarding the implementation of school polices to prevent bullying in the school.

Additionally, a third purpose was to determine whether there was a relationship between perceptions of bullying and the effectiveness of school bullying policies.

This study were select demographic variables of principal respondents (i.e., gender, years of experience and level of education) on levels of bullying in their schools and the level of implementation of school polices to prevent bullying.

A total of 538 public and private elementary school principals represented the overall study population.

Of the population, the response rate was 24%, or a sample of 133.

The findings revealed that there are no significant differences between the principals of public and private primary schools in both perceptions of bullying and levels of school policy implementation to prevent bullying.

Interestingly, there is a positive partial correlation between perceptions and policies for school principals .442 and significance at the level of 0.001.

Moreover, principals’ educational levels and years of experience also did not yield statistically significant differences among primary school principals’ perceptions of bullying.

Recommendations for further study are shared as a result of this research