فعالية برنامج قائم على إرشاد الأقران في تنمية السلوك الاجتماعي لخفض التنمر المدرسي لدى طلبة المرحلة الإعدادية بمحافظات غزة

Abstract EN

The study aimed to explore the effectivness of a program based on peer counseling in developing social behavior to reduce school bullying among middle school students in Khanyounes governorate.

The study sample consisted of (20) students, distributed into two groups: experimental group of (10) students and control group of (10) students while homogeneity in terms of social behavior and school bullying was considered.

The researcher used the social behavior scale prepared by the researcher, school bullying scale prepared by Mohammed (2020) and counseling program which was applied for (18) sessions on experimental group during 8 weeks.

The main results were: there are statistically significant differences in the level of social behavior and school bullying between experimental and control group after applying the peer counseling program in the favor of the experimental group, Also there are statistically significant differences in the level of social behavior and school bullying between pre and posttest in the favor of posttest among experimental group, as well as the continuation of the effectivness of peer counseling program in traceral scale after passage of two months for the peer counseling progrm.

The study recommended the need to use the method of peer counseling in educational and counseling process and in programs to improve social behavior and school bullying reduction among students