The prevalence of mobbing among nursery school teachers
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | 14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. Conference Proceedings |
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| Web | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simona-Cakirpaloglu/publication/353454496_The_prevalence_of_mobbing_among_nursery_school_teacher/links/611a18860c2bfa282a49d836/The-prevalence-of-mobbing-among-nursery-school-teacher.pdf |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2021 |
| Keywords | workplace bullying; prevalence; NAQ-R; victimization |
| Description | In Czech terminology, mobbing is understood as the equivalent of bullying in the workplace. This is a serious phenomenon, which is negatively reflected in the quality of relationships in the workplace, its climate and atmosphere as well as in the experience and health of its actors, especially among the victims of bullying. It is obvious that mobbing is fundamentally reflected in the work performance of the participants and if it occurs in the school environment, it affects the professional role of the teacher and thus reduces the quality of his/her educational activities. The prevalence of mobbing is greatly subject to the changing social conditions. The estimated prevalence of mobbing in selected European countries varies between 1 and 24.8%. The prevalence of mobbing is affected by the methods of estimation which primarily include self-assessment, behavioural or combined indicators or the latent cluster analysis. In recent years, the research of the phenomenon of mobbing in the school environment has become increasingly important. The proposed research is aimed at the environment of nursery school teachers. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to focus on a group of nursery school teachers and to explore the prevalence of bullying among these educational professionals. A partial objective of the study was to identify the most frequent forms of mobbing in the monitored sample. The research sample comprised a total of 369 respondents. The sample included nursery school teachers (citizens of the Czech Republic) aged 21 to 68 years who were employed at the time of data collection. The average age was 42.23 years (ME 42; SD 11.03). The average period of employment in the current position was 14.8 years. To identify the prevalence and forms of workplace bullying the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised and a status questionnaire were used. According to the stringent evaluation criterion, the highest prevalence of workplace bullying of 5.75% was determined by means of behavioural measurement; according to self-evaluation measurement the prevalence was 2.15%; the lowest prevalence of workplace bullying of 1.65% was obtained by combining the behavioural and self-evaluation measurements. The combined estimate in the present research involved a group of employees who faced frequent hostile acts in the workplace and at the same time identifies themselves with the role of a victim. The combined estimate in the context of the NAQ-R provides a finer distinction between the core group of mobbed individuals and those who overrate this phenomenon. |