The relationship of school bullying behavior on connectedness of primary school students
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The purpose of this study was to analyze and examine the consistency of the developed causal relationship model of school bullying behavior on connectedness among elementary school students with empirical data among primary school students. They were selected by stratified random sampling. The sample group consisted of 1,200 students in grades 1-6 from the Chonburi Primary Educational Service Area Office. The research instrument is the rating-scale questionnaire developed by the researcher It has a confidence value of .96. was used as the research instrument. In the data analysis, descriptive statistics and structural equation modelling by LISREL were employed.
The result shows that the developed model was consistent with the empirical data, considering the statistical chi-square of 30.41, the degree of freedom (df) of 23, the probability (p) of .14, the RMSEA of .02, the RMR of .01, the SRMR of .01, the GFI of .99, the AGFI of .99, the CFI of .99, and the NNFI of .99. All variables accounted for 75% of the variance in student connectedness, upon controlling besides school support and Perception and acceptance of Diversity In addition, bullying behavior had a negative direct influence on school support with influencing coefficient of -.12, as well as a negative indirect influence on Perception and acceptance of Diversity with an influencing coefficient of -.12 through school support.
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