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Riferimenti bibliografici
Volume LXV n. 1 – Gennaio-Marzo 2011
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SUMMARY
The aim of this work is to verify if demographic variables and other social and
contest variables can have a statistically significant weight on the behaviour of
bully and victim in the scholastic context. To this purpose, a survey was done in
some high schools in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME), to better understand how
the youngsters live their relationship with peers. The focus of the research was put
on the five grades of studies. Half of the schools sections were sampled. In the first
step it was done an accurate descriptive analysis. Afterward, trough the use of the
logistic regression, two models were chosen: the first considered as dependent
variable who attended to bullying and the second who suffered from bullying.
Both models evidence a total non significance of the demographic variables.
The first model exhibits the home-school route and the attitude toward the bully as
significant variables. The second model shows that the variable regarding the
school and the variable regarding who is bullying are significant.
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Giuseppe AVENA, Ricercatore di Statistica Sociale, Facoltà di Scienze Statistiche,
Università di Messina.
Santina PILATO, Dottore di Ricerca in Statistica e Risorse Ambientali, Università
di Messina.