Cunoașterea și recunoașterea fenomenului de bullying în școală – o condiție esențială pentru securitatea psihologică a copiilor (studiu privind percepția asupra fenomenului de bullying în școală)

Abstract

Bullying in schools is a systemic problem that affects all schools in Romania and beyond. According to a study provided by the Save the Children Foundation, in just the 10 minutes of break at school, 1 in 4 children in Romanian schools is a victim of bullying, repeatedly. At European level, Romania ranks 3rd in the ranking of the 42 countries where the phenomenon was investigated, according to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO), with 17% of 11- year-olds who admitted to assaulting other students at least three times in the previous month, the percentage of those of 13, respectively 15 years, being 23%. The latest data processed at the level of the Ministry of National Education (MEN) for the school year 2014-2015 speaks of 18,783 cases of violence nationwide. According to the same study, 3 out of 10 children are excluded from the peer group, 3 out of 10 children are threatened with beating or hitting by their peers and 1 in 4 children were humiliated in front of their peers. The present study proposes you to identify the level of awareness of the phenomenon of bulliyng between students, of the degree of aggressiveness in the students from the final years, the IV-th and VIII-th grades, the identification of the main manifestations of the students in front of the awareness / confrontation of the bulliyng phenomenon, but also the identification of the level of the need for integrated school-family-child intervention, in front of the bulliyng phenomenon.