A Study on Association between Students’ Relationships with Teachers or Friends, Student-centered Educational Environments, Socio-cultural Environments and Violence against Teachers in High School

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of students’ relationships with teachers or friends, student-centered educational environments, and limited membership(experience of discrimination) as a sociocultural aspect on students’ violence against teachers based on a socioecological perspective. To achieve the goal of this study, negative binomial regression was conducted using the 2022 high school data from GIE’s Gyeonggi-Do School Education Survey. The key findings of this study are as follows. First, in terms of relationships experienced by students, relationships with teachers had a statistically significant negative effect on violence against teachers. However, students’ relationships with friends significantly increased violence against teachers. Second, student-centered educational environments in which students can participate and involve in class and school and be satisfied with curriculum significantly lowered the possibility of violence against teachers. Third, limited membership(experience of discrimination) showed a statistically significant positive effect on violence against teachers. Based on these findings, this study suggested the followings. First, to reduce violence against teachers, it is necessary to create a school culture for students to experience a democratic environment rather than a social culture in which discrimination is prevalent. Second, it’s important to improve the educational environment in school in a way that teachers and students can respect each other and students can participate autonomously in class and decision making.