The relationship between school climate and bullying behavior in high school students of Yazd

Present study aims to investigate the relationship between school climate and bullying behavior among the middle school students of Yazd city in the academic year of 2011-2012. Population of this study includes all of the middle school students of Yazd city, which of them, 400 students were selected by cluster random sampling. This article is a correlation- descriptive study. To evaluate school climate, Comprehensive School Climate Scale (CSCS, 2009) was used, and for evaluating bullying behavior, Olweus Bullying/ Victimization Questionnaire (1996) was applied. In this study, descriptive statistics such as, Pearson correlation and independent sample t-test were used for analyzing the data. Results showed that there is a negative and meaningful correlation between school climate and bully/ victim behavior. Also, it was found that male students were bullying and victimized more than of female students. Moreover, the results of this study showed that School climate and its components were in positive correlation with academic achievement. Meanwhile, there is a negative correlation between bully/ victim behavior and academic achievement (p