Preliminary communication
Bullying in institutions for children without adequate parental care
Anita Jaman
; Children’s home "Maestral", Split
Abstract
The paper describes a part of results of the research about bullying, which was carried out in June 2006 within a wider research. The research among children without parental care was conducted in the region of Dalmatia in three institutions for children without adequate parental care (“Maslina” Dubrovnik, “Maestral” Split and its branch “Miljenko i Dobrila” Kaštel Lukšić) in three days. The results of the study were then compared with the available results of the researches about violence among
schoolchildren. The results of the study have shown that altogether 66% of children in the previously mentioned institutions had participated in violence as victims (18%), bullies (4%) or both (44%) during the previous few months. All types of abuse had been present and occurred in the following order due to frequency: verbal (as the most frequent), mental, social, physical, sexual and material abuse. No signifi cant difference between institutions has been established in terms of types, frequency or characteristics of bullying. Considering the established occurrence of bullying in children’s homes, it seems obvious that it is not possible to resolve the problem with individual experts’ activity. Therefore it is essential to organize an overall prevention and intervention program with specific activities, similar to the UNICEF’s “Safe and encouraging environment in schools”. In the research the Olweus bully/victim questionnaire (Olweus, 1998.) was used, on the small sample of 50 children, which makes the concluding process and the generalization of conclusions quite limiting.
Keywords
institution for children without adequate parental care; bullying in children’s homes; bullyng in schools; victim; bully
Hrčak ID:
82601
URI
Publication date:
30.9.2009.
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