Students’ perception of incivility behaviors and its frequency of occurrence inside school environment | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 26, Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 322-334 PDF (483.22 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.126412 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hanan Abo El-Gamelen Ebrahim Essa; Samia E. Khaton | ||
| Assistant Professors of Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Classroom incivility has emerged as an increasing problem nowadays. Incivility can be perpetrated by both students and teachers within the school environment. The aim of the study was to assess the students‟ perception of incivility behaviors and its occurrence inside school environment. Study design: A descriptive multistage study design. Settings: Six governmental preparatory, secondary and technical schools at Tanta City affiliated to Ministry of Education. Subjects: A random sample of 304 students at the previous mentioned settings. Study tool: A structured questionnaire schedule that consisted of following parts: Socio demographic characteristics of the study subjects and students‟ perception of classroom incivility instrument. Results: about half of the studied students had low perception of total incivility behaviors among school students. However more than one third of them had high perception of teachers' incivility behaviors .While the highest percentage of them reported that the frequency of occurrence of these behaviors was low. Highly significant correlation was found between total levels of students perception to incivility behaviors and levels of its reported frequency. Conclusion &recommendations: As general, the highest percentage of the students had low level of perception of incivility behaviors inside school environment. So, educational program to provide meaningful information regarding the types of uncivil behaviors, contributing factors, the impact of uncivil behaviors, and the strategies used to prevent and/or manage incivility in school environment was recommended. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Incivility behavior; Adolescents and Classroom learning environment | ||
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