Reducing Violent Discipline by Teachers: a Matched Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Tanzanian Public Primary Schools.

Autor: Masath FB; Department of Psychology & Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University, P.O. Box 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany.; Department of Educational Psychology and Curriculum Studies, Dar es Salaam University College of Education, P.O. BOX 2329, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania., Mattonet K; Department of Psychology & Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University, P.O. Box 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany., Hermenau K; Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Protestant Hospital Bethel, University Clinics OWL, Bielefeld University, 33617, Bielefeld, Germany., Nkuba M; Department of Educational Psychology and Curriculum Studies, Dar es Salaam University College of Education, P.O. BOX 2329, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania., Hecker T; Department of Psychology & Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University, P.O. Box 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany. tobias.hecker@uni-bielefeld.de.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research [Prev Sci] 2023 Jul; Vol. 24 (5), pp. 999-1010. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 26.
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-023-01550-0
Abstrakt: Violent discipline in schools infringes on children's rights and is associated with harmful developmental consequences for students. This calls for effective intervention programs, particularly in countries with high prevalence of violent discipline in schools. This study tested the effectiveness of the preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children-for Teachers (ICC-T) in reducing violent discipline by teachers in a two-arm matched cluster-randomized controlled trial. The sample comprised teachers (n = 173, 53.7% female) and students (n = 914, 50.5% girls) from 12 public primary schools from six regions in Tanzania. Teacher physical and emotional violent discipline reported by teachers and students was assessed before and six to eight and a half months after the intervention. The schools were randomly allocated to either intervention (6; ICC-T) or control condition (6; no intervention). Teachers were not blinded. Students and research assistants conducting the follow-up assessment were blinded. A series of multivariate multilevel models revealed significant time*intervention effects on physical violent discipline reported by teachers and students and teachers' favorable attitudes towards physical violent discipline, FDRs < .05. In addition, we found a spill-over effect on peer-to-peer violence and students' externalizing, ps < .05. There were no significant time*intervention effects either on emotional violent discipline, FDRs > .05, teachers' favorable attitudes towards emotional violent discipline or on student's internalizing problems and academic performance, ps > .05. Our results provide further evidence that ICC-T may positively change teachers' violent disciplining behavior and their attitudes towards violent discipline. ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03893851.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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