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Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs On Antecedents To Bullying: . A Concept Mapping Study, Joel Alan Lopata

Digitized Theses

This study gave an opportunity for pre-service teachers to voice their beliefs and knowledge about the antecedents to bullying and to victimization. Concept mapping was used to analyze the data. The information yielded from interviews was clustered into themes according to sorting tasks completed by participants. Reg arding the antecedents to bullying and victimization, pre-service teachers had accurate and inaccurate beliefs, lack of knowledge, and differing beliefs about bullies and victims. Concept maps and accompanying factor rating tables indicated that participants believed important antecedents to bullying to include family factors, abuse, instability, and socioeconomic factors, school and academic factors, interpersonal …