NCJ Number
196089
Journal
Revija za Kriminalistiko in Kriminologijo Volume: 52 Issue: 1 Dated: January-March 2001 Pages: 21-31
Date Published
2001
Length
11 pages
Annotation
This article explores the semantic structure of expressions used by children in peer violence.
Abstract
There is a growing need to understand the diverse terms used in the phenomenon of bullying. There is also a need to develop an appropriate methodology for its cross-cultural research. The results of the Slovene part of a cross-cultural study of children aged 8- to 14-years-old are provided. Results show that students of second and eighth class of elementary school classified diverse forms of abuse according to two latent dimensions. One of them is distinguished between more and less serious forms of abuse. The other is between direct/physical abuse and indirect/social abuse. All the used and investigated expressions refer to a greater extent to physical forms of abuse and only to a lesser extent to verbal/social abuse. 3 figures, 5 tables, 10 references