 Links between maltreatments by educational staff on students and the school climate in Quebec primary schools 
This quantitative and cross-sectional study aims to verify the links between maltreatments by educational staff on students and the school climate in primary schools. The research proposal, which considers the school as a unit of analysis, uses data from the survey aimed at drawing up a portrait of the situation of violence in Quebec schools. The sample is made up of 141 elementary schools, that is, 19,675 students from the fourth to sixth year of elementary school (ages 9 to 12) from Quebec elementary schools. Participants completed the Questionnaire sur la Sécurité et la Violence à l’école Révisé (QSVE-R/ Beaumont, Paquet, Leclerc et Frenette, 2017) to generate a portrait of the situation of school climate and violence in Quebec schools. The results show that nearly one in six students per school reported having been the victim of at least one year of maltreatment by an educational staff member and that a pupil suffers on average up to 0.79. This research suggests that the maltreatment of school staff towards young people contributes to a more negative perception of the different dimensions of the school climate among students who are victims. Almost all of the maltreatment behaviors studied were also significantly and negatively related to the perceived dimensions of school climate for all students in the school. These results exhibit the importance of efforts to be made from primary school onwards to improve the educational practices of school personnel in order to reduce student abuse by adults.