Stavovi nastavnika prema dječjem agresivnom ponašanju: utjecaj vrste agresije, spola agresora i spola žrtve
Teachers' Attitudes toward Children's Aggressive Behavior: The Effects of Type of Aggression, Gender of Aggressor, and Gender of Victim

Summary/Abstract: Teachers' attitudes and beliefs toward children's aggressive behavior are important yet underinvestigated factors that can influence the development of children's aggression as well as the effects of school-based programs aimed at reducing and preventing aggression. The present paper deals with teachers' attitudes toward children's aggressive behavior, i.e., with their perceptions of the seriousness of various kinds of children's aggressive behavior, their perceptions of the extent to which the victim of aggression suffers, and their readiness to intervene when witnessing children's aggressive acts. The sample consisted of 136 elementary-school teachers of female sex. The impact of the type of aggression (direct versus indirect), aggressor's gender and victim's gender on teachers' ratings were analysed. Relations between the three measures of teachers' attitudes were also examined, as well as differences in the likelihood of applying various kinds of intervention in relation to the type of aggression. Results have shown that teachers viewed direct aggressive behaviors (both physical and verbal) as more serious or more "aggressive" than indirect aggressive behaviors. Teachers also thought that victims of direct aggressive acts were more distressed than victims of indirect aggressive acts. In addition, teachers proved to be more likely to intervene when witnessing direct rather than indirect aggression acts. Those teachers' attitudes were independent of the gender of the aggressor and the victim. Interaction of the gender of aggressor and victim with the type of aggression also had no impact on teachers' attitudes.

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