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Peer violence in adolescence in the context of parental behavior

Mira Klarin orcid.org/0000-0003-4138-7531 ; Sveučilište u Zadru
Snježana Matešić ; Sveučilište u Zadru

Abstract

The aim of this research was to analyse adolescents’ gender differences and the frequency of individual forms of peer violence. The research included 172 elementary school students from Rijeka. The instrument includes: Peer violence scale (Rimac i sur., 2012), Perception of parent behaviour scale (Macuka, 2002). Results show that gender difference was not found in the experienced and committed peer violence. Almost 3% students experience violence very often, and 11,38 sometimes. 11,45% students was sometimes perpetrators of peer violence. The most common is psychological violence, especially gossip. The study results also suggest a significant association between peer violence, especially experienced, with different dimensions of parental behaviour, and the ability to differentiate parental behaviour considering the prevalence of peer violence.

Keywords

peer violence; parenting behaviour; adolescents

Hrčak ID:

124772

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/124772

Publication date:

8.7.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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