Psychological climate of class – factor for prevention and reduction of school aggressiveness

Current research and studies demonstrate that the problem of bullying-type aggressiveness in school is worsening internationally as well as nationally. Various factors that lead to aggressiveness and violence among students are extensively analyzed, including non-vulnerable factors. In recent decades, the focus has been on addressing the problem of bullying in school that is becoming complex and difficult to realize. In the given article, an attempt is made to address the issue of reducing and preventing student aggression by valorizing the values and functions of the students’ class and, above all, the healthy psychological climate. Namely the psychological climate creates a favorable environment for learning and education that strongly influences the behavior of students. The characteristics of psychological climate, the ways of forming a healthy psychological climate, principles and ways of valorizing the classroom climate in preventing and reducing aggressiveness and bullying-type aggressiveness in school are analyzed. Some forms and methods of carrying out this process were also described. The proposed concept opens up new perspectives for preventing and reducing aggressiveness, including bullying in educational institutions.