Deveci S E, Acik Y, Ayar A
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey.
Child Care Health Dev. 2008 Jan;34(1):25-31. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2007.00756.x.
Violence of any type is a serious issue in the lives of many children from all racial, cultural and economic backgrounds, and is a topic of enormous societal concern in any society. The purpose of this study was to examine the rate of exposure to violence as victims, and attitudes towards physical violence among school-aged children in eastern Turkey.
All the basic education schools in Elazig, a typical eastern Anatolian city, were included. A total of 3725 fifth and sixth graders were asked to answer survey questions about the rate of physical violence exposure in their everyday lives and whether they thought the violence was an 'acceptable' behaviour.
The mean age of participants was 12.8 years with 46.8% boys and 53.2% girls, and their socio-economic status ranged from low-income to upper middle class. Seventy-four per cent of school-aged children reported exposure to at least one case of physical violence in their lives, and 43.4% reported experiencing physical violence within previous 12 months. Higher rates of exposure to physical violence were reported by boys than girls (P = 0.0001). Of the victims, 33.8% regarded physical violence as an acceptable or inevitable way of solution or responding to life events.
Results from the self-report of the receiving end of violent behaviours indicate that physical violent victimization is at an alarmingly high rate among children of eastern Turkey, and a significant per cent of these victims approves violence as a way of solution.
任何形式的暴力在来自所有种族、文化和经济背景的许多儿童的生活中都是一个严重问题，并且在任何社会中都是引起巨大社会关注的话题。本研究的目的是调查土耳其东部学龄儿童遭受暴力侵害的比率以及对身体暴力的态度。
纳入了位于安纳托利亚东部典型城市埃拉泽的所有基础教育学校。总共3725名五年级和六年级学生被要求回答关于他们在日常生活中遭受身体暴力侵害的比率以及他们是否认为暴力是一种“可接受”行为的调查问卷。
参与者的平均年龄为12.8岁，其中男孩占46.8%，女孩占53.2%，他们的社会经济地位从低收入到中上层阶级不等。74%的学龄儿童报告称在生活中至少遭受过一次身体暴力侵害，43.4%的儿童报告在过去12个月内遭受过身体暴力。报告遭受身体暴力侵害比率较高的是男孩而非女孩（P = 0.0001）。在受害者中，33.8%认为身体暴力是解决或应对生活事件的一种可接受或不可避免的方式。
暴力行为受害者自我报告的结果表明，土耳其东部儿童遭受身体暴力侵害的比率高得惊人，而且相当一部分受害者认可暴力作为一种解决方式。
