Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
Department of Social Science, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Malaysia.
Child Abuse Negl. 2023 Nov;145:106436. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106436. Epub 2023 Sep 8.
Childhood trauma is one of the most preventable risk factors for mental health problems. Considering the substantial amount of time that young people spend in school during their early years, it is important to understand the potential impacts of teachers' behaviors on students' mental health.
This study examined the relationship between exposure to teacher violence and mental health problems.
An international sample of young adults aged 18 to 24 (N = 283).
Participants completed self-report measures of childhood trauma, exposure to teacher violence, depressive symptoms, post-traumatic stress, and alcohol misuse.
Exposure to teacher violence could be reliably and validly measured using the Teacher Violence Scale (TVS). Current mental health problems - including depressive symptoms, post-traumatic stress, and alcohol misuse - were associated with exposure to teacher violence during high school years, but not with childhood non-betrayal trauma.
Our findings expand the application of the betrayal trauma theory to school settings and point to the importance of preventing and managing teacher violence. It is important to provide more support and training to teachers and enhance monitoring measures in schools. More research on the prevalence and correlates of exposure to teacher violence is needed. We also provided first evidence supporting the reliability and validity of the English version of the TVS to facilitate future research.
童年创伤是心理健康问题最可预防的风险因素之一。鉴于年轻人在早年时期大量时间都在学校度过，了解教师行为对学生心理健康的潜在影响非常重要。
本研究考察了暴露于教师暴力与心理健康问题之间的关系。
来自 18 至 24 岁的国际青年成年人样本（N=283）。
参与者完成了儿童期创伤、暴露于教师暴力、抑郁症状、创伤后应激和酒精滥用的自我报告测量。
可以使用教师暴力量表（TVS）可靠且有效地测量暴露于教师暴力的情况。当前的心理健康问题，包括抑郁症状、创伤后应激和酒精滥用，与高中时期暴露于教师暴力有关，而与儿童期非背叛创伤无关。
我们的研究结果将背叛创伤理论扩展到学校环境，并指出预防和管理教师暴力的重要性。为教师提供更多的支持和培训，并加强学校的监测措施非常重要。需要更多关于暴露于教师暴力的普遍性和相关性的研究。我们还提供了支持 TVS 的英语版本的可靠性和有效性的初步证据，以促进未来的研究。
