The Situation of Violence in the High Schools of Shkodra City.
AJTES Vol 3, No 1, July 2019
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Keywords

school
student
teacher
violence

How to Cite

Shabani, Z., Shala, I., Kraja, J., Gjinaj, V., & Pjetri, E. (2019). The Situation of Violence in the High Schools of Shkodra City. Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 3(1), 349–360. https://doi.org/10.32391/ajtes.v3i1.30

Abstract

Any behavior or attitude that harms the physical, emotional, and sexual well-being of one or more persons and affects the termination of the individual's normal development is considered as violence. Violence at school includes behaviors such as: victimization of a child and teachers, raping of a child and / or a teacher, physical and psychological harassment, cyber threatening, controversies, bullism, physical and psychological harm, teachers and students sexual violence, using of weapons in school environments. The main violence forms at school are: teachers to students, students to teachers, students to students.

This is a punctual, transversal, cross-sectional study. 100 students at high school of Shkodra city participated in this study. The sample selection was randomized. Students of 14-18 years old; 63 females and 37 males were included in the study. The timeframe of the study was January – February  2018. The information was gathered from face to face interviews using standatized questionnaires: Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) 2003, Core-Expanded Questions for the Violence and Unintentional Injury Module Violence (adapted). The information collected by the questionnaires was confident, self-report  and with permission of school. All data were calculated with Microsoft Office 2010.

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