Citation

Tijerina MCT, Maldonado MEC, Gonzalez-Salazar F. Procedia Soc. Behav. Sci. 2014; 132: 466-472.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.04.338

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In current times were violence affects different populations and social and religious groups, universities are having various manifestations of internal violence. This cross sectional study was designed to identify the amount and type of violence that exists in a university from the north of Mexico. A likert survey with 120 reagents was applied in a representative sample of 545 students from the faculties. The prevalence of violence was above twenty percent, social rejection is the most common type of violence, followed by verbal violence and direct physical assault.