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| Author(s): |
Jorge Luiz da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2017-05-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Marta Angélica Iossi Silva;
Marina Rezende Bazon;
Salua Cecilio;
Andrea Maturano Longarezi
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| Advisor: | Marta Angélica Iossi Silva |
| Abstract | |
School bullying is a type of violence between peers involving intentional, repetitive aggressions, and practices in an unequal power relationship between victims and aggressors. It is considered an important problem to be investigated and coped with in schools, as it has adverse effects on the physical, emotional and social development of students. Its occurrence relates to contextual aspects of scholastic institutions and personal aspects of students from students. Thus, this investigation\'s focus is directed at personal characteristics that make students vulnerable to bullying victimization, in a sense to propitiate better conditions for victims in terms of self-defense and building friendships, to increase the social support received when coping with these aggressions. Thus, the objective of this study was to verify if the improvement of social skills reduces victimization of Brazilian students from the 6th school year who are bullying victims. We conducted an intervention study in six public schools from the city of Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Seventy-eight students, victims of bullying, participated in the study, and they were allocated into two groups: intervention (n=38) and comparison (n=40). Participants from both groups were assessed in relation to bullying victimization and the development of social skills, before and after a social skills intervention. The eight sessions, conducted once a week, with 50 minutes duration each, focused on civility skills, to build friendships, self-control and emotional expressivity, empathy, assertiveness and resolving interpersonal problems. The data were statistically analyzed through Poisson\'s regression models with random effects. Pre- and post-tests analyses revealed that intervention and comparison groups significantly reduced bullying victimization. Intervention participants presented decreased difficulty in practicing social skills at a non-significant statistical level. As behavioral changes require more time to be effective in social relationships, the limited time existing between the end of the intervention and the post-test assessment could have influenced the result. However, the tendency to increase the social abilities of bullying victims was perceived by their pairs as indicating they had better social acceptance, greater capacity for conflict resolution, more sympathy and less indication that they had few friends, in comparison to the initial assessment (pre-test). Despite not presenting significant differences, those are results demonstrating progress in the victims\' social position. Although it is not possible to attribute the decrease in victimization to the intervention, those are results proving the positivity of the study that, in the long-term, may broaden its magnitude to a level that it can become significant. Considering the results, we suggest other anti-bullying intervention models to be tested in the reality of the national context, aiming to identify the most effective ones. We recommend future studies to use approaches not focused exclusively on individual aspects of students. Social skills interventions can be more effective if developed with other interventions, including a variety of situations, contexts, and subjects involved in bullying, such as peers, school teams, and family members (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/22361-5 - Social Skills Training as a strategy to cope with bullying: intervention and empowerment |
| Grantee: | Jorge Luiz da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |