Reasons Leading to Student’s Violence Against Teachers and Administrators in Jordanin Public Secondary Schools from the Viewpoint of Students, Teachers and Administrators

Abstract

The study aimed to identify reasons leading to
students’ violence against teachers and administrators in
Jordanin public secondary schools from the students’,
teachers’, and administrators’ points of view. The study
sample was a stratified random cluster, consisting of 945
individuals: 100 administrators, 200 teachers, and 645
students. In order to collect data, a questionnaire was used
that consisted of two sections: one aimed at collecting the
necessary demographic data about respondents and the other
aimed at measuring the reasons of students` violence. The
study results showed that the degree of the presence of
reasons leading to students violence against teachers and
administrators in Jordanin public secondary schools was
medium, and their order from the viewpoint of all the
individuals of the study's sample was as follows: external
reasons (political and media-related) ranked first, school
reasons came second, and psychological reasons came last.
The study identified statistically significant differences at (α ≤
0.05) in the degree of the presence of psychological reasons
attributed to the nature of profession variable. Accordingly, a
number of recommendations were presented.