Citation

Stalmach M, Tabak I, Radiukiewicz K. Med. Wieku Rozwoj. 2014; 18(4): 495-505.

Vernacular Title

Wybrane czynniki społeczno-ekinomiczne środowiska rodzinnego jako predyktory przemocy rówieśniczej wśród młodzieży szkolnej w Polsce.

Affiliation

Zakład Zdrowia Dzieci i Młodzieży, Instytut Matki i Dziecka, ul. Kasprzaka 17a, 01-211Warszawa, Poland, tel./fax.: (22) 32-77-405, e-mail: magdalena.stalmach@imid.med.pl.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Instytut Matki i Dziecka)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

25874790

Abstract

AIM: Analyses concerning peer violence among girls and boys aged 13-17 years, in the context of socio- -economic characteristics of the family: family structure, parental employment status and perceived family wealth. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Preliminary data from the recent HBSC studies conducted in 12 voivodeships in Poland in 2013 was used. The analyzes concerned 2300 students aged 13-17 years (45% boys) and focused on the following types of violence: being a perpetrator and a victim of bullying, participation in fights and cyberbullying. Chi-square test analysis and multivariate logistic regression models were used.

RESULTS: Significantly more boys than girls experienced bullying (28% vs. 22%) and was perpetrators of violence in the school (39% vs. 25%). The youth from single-parent families significantly more often than students from two-parent families, participated in fights and was the perpetrators of violence in the school. Being a perpetrator and a victim of violence concerned mostly students from poor families and boys, whose father was unemployed. The following risk factors was identified- among boys: low economic status of the family (victims of bullying) and single-parent family (victims of cyberbullying), father's unemployment (the perpetrator of bullying) and age 13-14 years (victims and perpetrators of bullying, participation in fights) and among girls: low economic status of the family (cyberbullying), mother's unemployment and age 13-14 years (victims of violence).

CONCLUSIONS: The family socio-economic factors, gender and age determine the type and the prevalence of peer violence. Low economic status of the family and single-parent family increases the risk of experiencing violence. For the prevention of bullying the educational role of the father and his commitment to family budget are important.

Language: pl