The topic of my research is the experience of peer violence in primary and secondary school, which I researched among persons between ages of eighteen and twentyfive, who have completed their first and second year of secondary school and live in the Republic of Slovenia.
The theoretical part of my thesis is devided into eleven sections: definition of peer violence; the roles of students when it comes to peer violence; types of peer violence; dynamics of peer violence; factors of peer violence; consequences of peer violence; recognition and prevention of peer violence; prevention in the field of peer violence in schools; preventing and dealing with peer violence; measures and response in cases of occurrence of peer violence and the role of the advisory service and peer violence.
Empirical part consists of problem formulations with research questions and hypotheses, followed by a description of the methodology, where I describe the type of research (combined quantitative and qualitative approach), variables, measuring instrument (survey questionnaire), population (persons who at the time of the research are presented between ages of eighteen and twenty-five, having completed the first and second year of secondary school and are living in the Republic of Slovenia) and sample (non-random and convenient), method of data collection (survey method) and data processing and analysis.
Following are the results, discussion, and conclusions, where I find that more people encounter peer violence in primary school than in secondary school; that the most common type of peer violence is psychological violence; that the most common reasons for the occurrence of peer violence on the part of the participants are the appearance of the individual and jealousy; that the most common reasons for peer violence on the part of employees are ignoring violence and not taking action when violence occurs; that students are often horrified when peer violence occurs, but do nothing about it; that when peer violence occurs, they most often confide in their friends at school and that employees rarely react to or recognize peer violence.
I conclude the research with suggestions that I write down based on the findings and on the basis of suggestions for changes in the field of dealing with peer violence on the part of the respondents.
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