Abstract:
This research intended to explore the psychological factors, family and community, students association with mischievous friends and the relationships between the popular use of violence in the institution and violent behavior. In addition, the comparative studies on violent behavior during quarrels among 400 private and public vocational students were done to analyze data with the Distribution of frequency, Percentage, Mathematical mean, Standard deviation, including the Independent t-test and the Hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The research findings derived from the analysis on the popular use of violence in institutions revealed that factors relating to predicting violent behavior were psychological and associated with mischievous friends. These 2 factors related directly and indirectly with the violent behavior. As for family and community were factors, the findings revealed the severity of the violence. Nonetheless, the analysis engaging the popular use of violence in the institution indicated that family and community related indirectly, but not directly with the severity of the violence. All 3 factors could predict the severity of violence from the case study by quarrel among vocational students as high as 57.3%, whereas the violent behavior remained at a moderate level (x¯ = 2.77). The comparative study on violent behavior among the vocational students in both private and public sectors indicated a p value of 0.58 (higher than 0.05). Thus, the differences in violence behavior were unfounded between the public vocational institutions (x¯ = 2.73) and private vocational institutions (x¯ = 2.78).