PURPOSE
This study was done to provide basic data for education of elementary school students on life-respect and peer bullying prevention.
METHODS
Participants were 5th and 6th grade elementary school students. Data from the questionnaires of 218 participants were analyzed.
RESULTS
1) The mean score for degree of life-respect was 4.23 (+/-0.38). The types of peer bullying were 'defenders of victims' (3.19+/-0.93), 'bullies' (2.04+/-0.72), 'victims' (1.91+/-0.84), 'bystanders' (1.79+/-0.80), and 'bully-followers' (1.66+/-0.60). 2) There was a significant difference in the degree of life-respect according to gender (t=-2.410, p=.017). Likewise, in the degree of peer bullying, among the type of 'bullies' there were significant differences according to grade (t=-2.285, p=.004), and gender (t=3.191, p=.002). Also, among the types of 'bully-followers' there were significant differences according to gender (t=2.053, p=.041), and having a religion or not (t=3.319, p=.001). 3) There was a significant correlation between life-respect and types of peer bullying.
CONCLUSION
The results of this study provide helps for more effective provision of educational programs regarding life-respect and peer bullying.

Citations

• Systematic Review of Meaning-centered Interventions for Adolescents
  Young Sook Lim, Kyung A Kang
  Child Health Nursing Research.2018; 24(3): 263.     CrossRef
• A Systematic Review of Forest Therapy Programs for Elementary School Students
  Min Kyung Song, Kyung-Sook Bang
  Child Health Nursing Research.2017; 23(3): 300.     CrossRef
• Relationship between Elementary School Students’ Bullying Experience and Bioethics
  Mi Young Moon
  Journal of the Korean Society of School Health.2015; 28(2): 127.     CrossRef

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to analyze life respect-related content in the 7th to 10th grade textbooks of middle and high schools.
METHODS
Sixty two textbooks adopted as middle and high school textbooks were analyzed for content on life respect.
RESULTS
There were 6 categories related to life respect content in the 7th to 9th grade textbooks ('prevention of accidents and the first-aid', 'mental health', 'sex and health', 'prevention of drug abuse, smoking and drinking', 'normal life and health', and 'society and health'). Content on life respect in the 10th grade textbooks was categorized as 'drug abuse, smoking, drinking, and health', 'sex and health', 'mental health', 'life science and treating human life too lightly', 'normal life and health', and 'society and health'.
CONCLUSION
Content on life respect attached importance to more practical issue such as prevention of violence and suicide rather than fundamental understanding about self and life. These results suggest that the content on life respect should help adolescents find their own values and meaning of life within the concept of coexistence.

Citations

• The Degree of Life-Respect and Peer Bullying in Elementary School Students.
  Shin Jeong Kim, Young Ae Park, Sung Hee Kim, Hye Young Kim, So Young Yoo, Seong Sook Baek, Jung Eun Lee
  Child Health Nursing Research.2015; 21(1): 28.     CrossRef