Cognitive Factors Associated With the Behaviors of School Violence among Students in the Upper Elementary Stage in the Gaza Governorates

International audienceThe study aimed at identifying the cognitive factors associated with school violence in school children in the upper elementary stage. The researcher chose the sample of the study from the ninth grade students. The researcher adopted a set of variables based on social and economic status, gender, and academic achievement. the researcher scale of school violence and test academic achievement applied where the study was conducted on a sample of 300 students, including 166 students and 134 female students from UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip, researcher has used the statistical methods used are T.Test test ,M I hope Pearson correlation, analysis of variance, and test Shevah. The results indicated that violence against society ranked first with a relative weight (48.41%). After self-violence, it ranked second with a relative weight (45.66%), followed by school violence with a relative weight of 45.28% the violence generally occupied the (46.41%), also it indicated that there were statistically significant differences in the level of violence is due to the variable socioeconomic differences (high, medium, low), and has been the differences in favor of low socio-economic level, while the study confirmed the existence of statistically significant differences between the level of violence due to gender differences have been in favor of For males