Título: PEER VIOLENCE IN SCHOOL, DIFFERENCES BASED ON GENDER

Autor(es): BARBA AYALA JESSY VERONICA, GUZMAN TORRES CRISTIAN EDUARDO, POSSO YEPEZ MIGUEL ANGEL

Fecha de publicación: 27-may-2020

Resumen: Nowadays, school violence is a hidden problem which concerns about 150 million adolescents between 13 and 15 years old according to Unicef. The purpose of this study is to determine if the level of violence experienced by teenagers differs depending on their gender. Regarding the methodology, it is based on a quantitative approach with a non-experimental design; it is cross-sectional with a correlational scope. We worked with a population of 10th grade teenagers (N= 1644) from Ibarra's public high schools. There were 824 male and 820 female students. The variable was measured using a Likert scale assessing the level of violence suffered by adolescents. It includes 11 items to evaluate the physical violence and 15 items related to the psychological peer violence. The instrument also includes information such as gender, ethnicity, religion and nationality. Index a is equals to 0.963 which indicates that the instrument is reliable. The results were obtained applying the student statistic t to independent samples, the results of the different types of violence between men and women were correlated and the statistic gave the result t=-6,45 with p<0,05 for school violence. This statistical evidence shows that both physical and psychological violence are more frequent towards women. We can conclude that there are violent behaviors in schools especially against women which can be viewed as a consequence of a discriminatory and patriarchal social and cultural system.

Palabras clave: Adolescentes, school violence, physical violence, psychological violence

DOI: 10.15405/epsbs.2020.05.19

ISSN: 2357-1330

Tipo publicación: Artículo