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SCHOOL SOCIAL DYNAMICS AS MEDIATORS OF STUDENTS’ PERSONAL
TRAITS AND FAMILY FACTORS ON THE PERPETRATION OF SCHOOL
VIOLENCE IN TAIWAN
by
Ji-Kang Chen
________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(SOCIAL WORK)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Ji-Kang Chen
Object Description
| Title | School social dynamics as mediators of students personal traits and family factors on the perpetration of school violence in Taiwan |
| Author | Chen, Ji-Kang |
| Author email | jikangch@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Social Work |
| School | School of Social Work |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-05-01 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-07-30 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Astor, Ron Avi |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Chi, Iris Johnson, C. Anderson |
| Abstract | To date, very few national studies have been conducted in Asia on school violence issues. In addition, few studies explored how school dynamics, family factors, personal traits work together to contribute to perpetration of school violence. Using a nationally representative sample of 14,042 Taiwanese students from elementary schools (grades 4 to 6), junior high schools (grades 7 to 9), academic high schools and vocational high schools (grades 10 to 12), this dissertation describes the perpetration of school violence in Taiwan. These are the first nationally representative studies on these issues in Taiwan. The first study of this dissertation focuses on the prevalence of student violence against students. The second study focuses on student violence against teachers. The remaindering three studies of the dissertation examine a theoretical model of how school engagement, school risky peers, and student-teacher relationships mediate the effects of personal traits and family factors on school violence committed by students against other students and teachers. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the theoretical model. Three separate studies explored this model on elementary (chapter 3), junior high (chapter 4), and high school (chapter 5) samples respectively. The study on high school students (chapter 5) also explores the model in vocational and academic schools. Compared with Western countries, the prevalence of school violence in Taiwan is high.; The findings across all three structural equation model studies suggest that the theoretical model was a good fit for the elementary school, junior high school and high school samples. Moreover, the theoretical models developed in Western cultures explained larger amounts of the explained variance for violence against student and teachers in Asian cultures. The overall findings suggested that school factors such as school engagement, school risky peers, and student-teacher relationships mediate family and personal factors. However, each school variable plays a different role in mediating the relationship for each school type and across development. Implications for theory, policy and practice, and recommendation for future research are discussed. |
| Keyword | school violence; bully; Taiwan; cross-culture; risk factors |
| Geographic subject (country) | Taiwan |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1458 |
| Rights | Chen, Ji-Kang |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Chen-20080730 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Chen-20080730.pdf |
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| Full text | SCHOOL SOCIAL DYNAMICS AS MEDIATORS OF STUDENTS’ PERSONAL TRAITS AND FAMILY FACTORS ON THE PERPETRATION OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE IN TAIWAN by Ji-Kang Chen ________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (SOCIAL WORK) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Ji-Kang Chen |
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