Teacher Victimization as a Predictor of Peer Victimization: Results From Two Studies in Chilean Schools

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Abstract

Although violence by students toward teachers has been recently studied, fewer studies have examined violence by teachers to students. The precise role of teacher-to-student victimization as a predictor of student-to-student victimization is not clear in the empirical literature. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative predictive effect of teacher-to-student victimization on student-to-student victimization, taking into account school climate and student-to-teacher perpetration. Findings from two large-scale separate studies with Chilean students (N=6,169 and N=4,688) show that school climate is a clear predictor of student victimization. Nevertheless, the role of teacher victimization as a predictor of peer victimization depends on school SES characteristics, and on the explicit type of staff victimization.

Authors

• Verónica López, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

• Javier Torres, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

• Boris Villalobos-Parada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

• Ron Avi Astor, University of Southern California

• Marian Bilbao, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

• Paula Ascorra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

• Claudia Carrasco, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso