Department of Public Health, Division of Community Health, University of Malawi, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.
Ital J Pediatr. 2009 Nov 25;35(1):38. doi: 10.1186/1824-7288-35-38.
Violence among adolescents has untoward psycho-social and physical health effects among this age group. Most of the literature on this topic has been from high-income nations, and little information has come from middle- and low-income nations. This study was done to assess the relationship between physical fighting and bullying victimization among Venezuelan school-going adolescents in Barinas.
We used data from the 2003 Global School-Based Health Survey conducted among in-school adolescents in Barinas, Venezuela. We estimated the prevalence of bullying victimization and physical fighting. We also conducted Logistic regression analysis to assess the association between a selected list of explanatory variables and physical fighting. We hypothesized that there would be a dose-response relationship between physical fighting and number of times the adolescent reported being a bullied in the past 30 days.
A total of 2,249 adolescent students participated in the survey. However data on sex (gender) were available for only 2,229 respondents, of whom 31.2 (47.4% males and 17.0% females) reported having been involved in a physical fight in the last 12 months. Some 31.5% (37.0% males and 27.0% females) reported having been bullied in the past 30 days. There was a dose-response relationship between bullying victimization and physical fighting (p-trend < 0.001). Compared to subjects who were not bullied, those who reported being bullied were more likely to engage in physical fighting after controlling for age, sex, substance use (smoking, alcohol drinking or drug use), and parental supervision.
Physical fighting and bullying victimization experience is common among in-school adolescents in Barinas, Venezuela. The fact that victims of bullying were more likely to have engaged in physical fighting may be evidence supporting the notion that "violence begets more violence".
青少年中的暴力行为对这一年龄段的心理社会和身体健康都有不良影响。大多数关于这个主题的文献都来自高收入国家，来自中低收入国家的信息很少。这项研究旨在评估委内瑞拉巴里纳斯的在校青少年中身体打架和被欺凌受害之间的关系。
我们使用了 2003 年在委内瑞拉巴里纳斯进行的全球学校健康调查的数据。我们估计了欺凌受害和身体打架的流行率。我们还进行了逻辑回归分析，以评估一组选定的解释变量与身体打架之间的关联。我们假设，在过去 30 天内，青少年报告被欺负的次数与身体打架之间存在剂量反应关系。
共有 2249 名青少年学生参加了调查。然而，只有 2229 名受访者有关于性别的数据，其中 31.2%（47.4%男性和 17.0%女性）报告在过去 12 个月内参与过身体打架。31.5%（37.0%男性和 27.0%女性）报告在过去 30 天内被欺负。在欺凌受害和身体打架之间存在剂量反应关系（趋势检验 p<0.001）。与未被欺负的受试者相比，那些报告被欺负的受试者在控制年龄、性别、物质使用（吸烟、饮酒或吸毒）和父母监督后，更有可能参与身体打架。
在委内瑞拉巴里纳斯的在校青少年中，身体打架和被欺凌受害的经历很常见。被欺凌的受害者更有可能参与身体打架，这一事实可能支持“暴力引发更多暴力”的观点。
