English abstract
The study aims at disclosing to what extent the bullying behavior spreads among school students in Al Batinah North Governorate the primary education students - grade two, and its relation to the emotional intelligence and academic achievement, as well as identifying how emotional intelligence contributes to the prediction of bullying behavior. The study sample consists of the grade two students from Al Batinah North Governorate/ Saham and Al Khaburah towns with a number of 473. The researcher uses the bullying measure after drawing upon and excerpting some phrases from previous studies and integrating them in one measure. The measure consists of (28) phrases distributed to the four bullying forms: physical, verbal, electronic and bullying into The researcher uses emotional intelligence measure excerpted from other studies which include (30) phrase distributed to four axes: personal efficiency, social efficiency, stress management, adaptation, and positive impression. The measures were verified by presenting to a number of referees.
The researcher uses the descriptive correlational method in the study, and depends on statistical styles represented in arithmetic average, standard deviations and pre and post-test. One of the most important results concluded by the study is that the percentage of bullying behavior among grade two students in Al Batinah North Governorate is low; since it reaches only (15.01)%. The results show also that student in Al Batinah North Governorate has emotional intelligence capacities; whereas social efficiency dimension represents the most one owned by sample members, then the personal efficiency comes in the last rank. Regarding the bullying behavior relation to the emotional intelligence for, the study concludes that there is a negative inverse relationship between the two variables; the more the emotional intelligence increases, the more bullying behavior decreases. There is an inverse relationship also between bullying behavior and academic achievement; since practicing bullying behavior results in low academic achievements. The last result of the study is that there is a statistical significance at the level of (0.01) for the emotional intelligence in the prediction of bullying behavior.
