Efeitos a Longo Prazo de Vitimização na Escola

Abstract

This study aimed at broadening the knowledge about the long term effects of school victimization by means of apilot study investigating the most negative events experienced by university students during the school yearspreceding University. A sample of 81 students (M= 21 years of age, 76% female) answered the Student Alienationand Trauma Scale – Revised. The analysis of the data demonstrated that, in most cases, the person involved in theworst school experience was another student (52%), the experiences occurred between the age of 11 and 14 yearsold (45%) and involved a situation of verbal violence (45.3%). After the experience, 89% of the participants feltnervousness, anger, sadness, loneliness, and remembrance of the occurred event, and 38% of the sample presenteda picture suggesting Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. The results must be interpreted with caution, for it is an initialstudy. Alterations in the instrument and new application strategies are suggested.

Keywords

• School Violence
• Trauma
• Bullying