Bullying in Physical Education Classes: Understanding of its Impactand Schools’ Intervention Program Implementation

Abstract

Bullying incidents are still increasing around the world. It can happen anywhere and the most likely place for the act to happen is in Physical Education classes. This study aimed to determine the impact of bullying in Physical Education classes and the extent of the implementation of the schools’ intervention program against bullying. Employing descriptive research and fishbowl sampling technique, 200 junior high school students who experienced bullying in Physical Education classes were included as the respondents. Results revealed that most of the students experienced emotional impact to a moderate extent, followed by attitude/behavioral, social, and academic impact to some extent. On the other hand, the physical impact was the least experienced by the students. On the implementation of the schools’ intervention, students’ experienced the programs that address bullying in school to a moderate extent. Significant differences were obtained on the impact of bullying in terms of physical, attitude/behavioral, social, and emotional aspects when the respondents were grouped according to age. Furthermore, there is also a significant difference on the physical impact of bullying when grouped in terms of the frequency of being bullied. Finally, based on the findings Anti-bullying Intervention Program for Physical Education was developed by the researchers to address the issues.