Influence of Middle School Students’ Victimization Experience on Discriminatory Behavior - Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Self-Human Rights Assessment -

The vicious cycle of violence in which victims of violence become perpetrators of violence is a severe social problem, and it is important to break the vicious circle. The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effect of self-human rights assessment in the path that children who have victimization experience practice discrimination against other people. The analysis was conducted using data from 2,770 students from the first to third grades of middle school based on data from the 2017 Survey on Human Rights of Children and Youth. As a result of the study, self-human rights assessment mediated the relationship between parental violence, teacher violence, and discriminatory behavior. The results of this study confirmed that children who have experienced parental and teacher violence lower their self-human rights assessment, and that lead to discriminatory behavior. Through this, the importance of intervention based on children’s human rights, especially to form an atmosphere of respect for human rights in the environment in which children belong is emphasized.