This chapter aims to describe the prevalence of bullying and cyberbullying among Italian students in middle and high school, taking into account the role of gender and Grade level and present brief stories about how young people relate at school. Italian adolescents showed a higher rate of indirect victimisation than Spanish students. Higher rates of relational aggression compared to physical aggression were also found among Italian students in a cross-cultural study involving nine countries. In terms of the relationship of bullying and cyberbullying with student well-being, a longitudinal study found that Italian students who engaged in repeated aggressive episodes showed serious school difficulties as well as externalising and internalising problems. The Peer Aggression and Well-being Questionnaire, including the Student Aggression and Victimisation Questionnaire was translated into Italian and then back-translated to English. The Peer Aggression and Well-being Questionnaire were filled-in online by students during school hours on campus in their IT classroom.

Il capitolo descrive le precedenti ricerche sul bullismo e il cyberbullismo condotte in Italia, presentando le normative scolastiche sulla prevenzione e il contrasto delle aggressioni a scuola. Il capitolo ha l’obiettivo di descrivere la prevalenza del bullismo e del cyberbullismo tra gli studenti delle scuole secondarie di primo e secondo grado in Italia, analizzando le differenze in funzione del genere e dell’ordine di scuola. Saranno inoltre analizzate brevi storie raccontate dagli studenti sulle relazioni a scuola. Per il presente studio, 494 studenti di scuole secondarie di primo grado e 405 studenti di scuole secondarie di secondo grado hanno compilato la versione italiana dello Student Aggression and Victimisation Questionnaire (SAVQ, Skrzypiec, 2015). I risultati hanno mostrato un’alta incidenza di aggressioni tra pari, principalmente in modalità offline rispetto al contesto online, nelle scuole secondarie di primo e secondo grado, che coinvolgono ragazzi e ragazze. Tuttavia, sono state riscontrate alcune differenze in specifici comportamenti di aggressione in funzione del genere e dell’ordine di scuola. L’analisi qualitativa delle storie ha rivelato che numerosi studenti considerano positivi i loro rapporti a scuola, sottolineano alcune differenze tra le relazioni faccia a faccia e quelle online e descrivono alcuni episodi di prevaricazione. Questi risultati saranno discussi alla luce del contesto italiano, fornendo suggerimenti per le future politiche di prevenzione.

Guarini, A., Menin, D., Mameli, C., Brighi, A. (2019). Peer aggression in Italy : Understanding bullying from an adolescents' point of view. Oxon : Routledge [10.4324/9780429426797-13].

Peer aggression in Italy : Understanding bullying from an adolescents' point of view

Annalisa Guarini
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Damiano Menin;Consuelo Mameli;
2019

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This chapter aims to describe the prevalence of bullying and cyberbullying among Italian students in middle and high school, taking into account the role of gender and Grade level and present brief stories about how young people relate at school. Italian adolescents showed a higher rate of indirect victimisation than Spanish students. Higher rates of relational aggression compared to physical aggression were also found among Italian students in a cross-cultural study involving nine countries. In terms of the relationship of bullying and cyberbullying with student well-being, a longitudinal study found that Italian students who engaged in repeated aggressive episodes showed serious school difficulties as well as externalising and internalising problems. The Peer Aggression and Well-being Questionnaire, including the Student Aggression and Victimisation Questionnaire was translated into Italian and then back-translated to English. The Peer Aggression and Well-being Questionnaire were filled-in online by students during school hours on campus in their IT classroom.
2019
A Global Perspective of Young Adolescents’ Peer Aggression and Well-being : Beyond Bullying
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Guarini, A., Menin, D., Mameli, C., Brighi, A. (2019). Peer aggression in Italy : Understanding bullying from an adolescents' point of view. Oxon : Routledge [10.4324/9780429426797-13].
Guarini, Annalisa; Menin, Damiano; Mameli, Consuelo; Brighi, Antonella
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