- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Violence as perceived by male and female students ages 12-18 in an alternative school in a suburban metropolitan Atlanta School District, 1996
- Creator:
- Blaylock, Willa B.
- Date of Original:
- 1996-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to investigate if any differences exist in the perceptions of male and female students ages 12 to 18 in alternative schools toward selected variables that contribute to school violence. This study was to determine whether variables such as negative peer pressure, abusive parents, lack of parental supervision at home, family structure, an involvement with drugs, exposure to violence in the mass media, and gender have a significant relationship on school violence. The questionnaires were taken to the administrators in the alternative schools. The data were obtained from the responses of 202 male and female students. The Pearson-r Correlation Coefficients was used to determine significant relationships. The correlation between the two groups were analyzed and interpreted as yielded by the Pearson-r Correlation Coefficients at the .05 level of significance. The findings indicated that there were significant correlations between school violence and parental supervision at home, and school violence and an involvement with drugs. The Multiple Regression, using a stepwise, revealed, that drugs had the greatest influence on school violence. Recommendations included: that schools should encourage community leaders to enter into partnership with schools and provide mentors for students to demonstrate positive role models, that schools should work with parents to ensure that appropriate supervision of their children is either provided by parents or an appropriate community service agency, and that schools should encourage students not to read material or watch videos that encourage or feature the use of drugs as being socially acceptable as part of their theme. Also, the school should work with parents to enforce this edict while at home or away from home, and schools should encourage various businesses to sponsor after-school work study programs for students, 16 to 18 years of age as part of an on-going career education programs. Further research is needed to explore the impact of negative peer pressure, abusive parents, media violence, and family structure in relation to school violence to be conducted with a larger, broader group of students.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1996_blaylock_willa_b
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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