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  • Educational Psychology
  • Sociology of Education
  • School Safety Research

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  • Teacher safety is crucial for effective education, yet factors influencing teachers' sense of security are not fully understood.
  • Existing research and policies on school violence often overlook the multifaceted contributors to teachers' feelings of unsafety.
  • Socioecological theory provides a framework to examine individual, peer, student, and school-level factors affecting teacher safety perceptions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the individual, work-related, and school-level factors associated with teachers' sense of feeling unsafe in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools.
  • To analyze the contributions of teacher characteristics, perceptions of school violence, peer and student relationships, and school environment to teacher safety.
  • To inform the development of targeted interventions for school violence and teacher turnover.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional study utilizing hierarchical multivariate regression and multilevel analyses.
  • Data collected from 9,625 teachers, 126,301 students, and 56,196 parents across 2,116 low-SES schools in Chile.
  • Examined teacher demographics, experience, work setting, perceptions of school violence, relationships, and school-level data on climate and violence.

Main Results:

  • Most teachers reported not feeling afraid or viewing their job as dangerous (72.9% and 74.6%, respectively).
  • Teachers reporting higher unsafety were more likely to be female, have fewer years of experience, work in regular classrooms, perceive greater school violence, and have poorer peer/student relationships.
  • Higher teacher unsafety was associated with schools characterized by higher poverty levels, larger enrollment, and increased student- and parent-reported school violence.

Conclusions:

  • Teacher safety perceptions are influenced by a complex interplay of individual, relational, and school environmental factors within low-SES settings.
  • Findings highlight the need for interventions addressing school violence, improving teacher-student and peer relationships, and mitigating the impact of school poverty.
  • Understanding these factors is critical for reducing teacher turnover and enhancing the overall school climate.