Long-Term Effects of Victimization at School
Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study aimed at broadening the knowledge about the long term effects of school victimization by means of a pilot study investigating the most negative events experienced by university students during the school years preceding University. A sample of 81 students (M= 21 years of age, 76% female) answered the Student Alienation and Trauma Scale – Revised. The analysis of the data demonstrated that, in most cases, the person involved in the worst school experience was another student (52%), the experiences occurred between the age of 11 and 14 years old (45%) and involved a situation of verbal violence (45.3%). After the experience, 89% of the participants felt nervousness, anger, sadness, loneliness, and remembrance of the occurred event, and 38% of the sample presented a picture suggesting Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. The results must be interpreted with caution, for it is an initial study. Alterations in the instrument and new application strategies are suggested.
Institution: Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2294737469