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We propose an index to measure gender violence in university students (women and men). To build this index, a questionnaire about violence is applied to a representative sample of students. Then, the information is organized through an ecological model and the result is integrated in an index through the analytic hierarchy process. The proposed index was exemplified for students in the Chapingo Autonomous University (UACh). In the UACh, both women and men showed similar grades of direct violence, but women exhibited more social and emotional consequences. The proposed index allows us: 1) to identify factors that influence the reproduction of violence, 2) to incorporate opinions of experts, 3) to get information of multiple factors and perceptions that people have about violence. Finally, this index can be extended to evaluate others social issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of the Scale of sexual harassment and social interaction of sexual content at the University, a questionnaire of 38 items that was administered to 1693 people (1521 students and 172 staff members) of a Spanish university. The results indicate that the questionnaire used consists of four factors explaining 61.81% of the total variance and evaluate sexual blackmail behaviors (Scale 1), sexual harassment verbal component (Scale 2) and physical (Scale 3) and social interaction of sexual content (Scale 4) in academia with a favourable reliability data (a between 0.962 and 0.775). Based on the results is recommended the use of the scale in future research on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the magnitude of violence reported by elementary and secondary students in Mexico in the document entitled, "Discipline, Violence and the Consumption of Harmful Substances at Elementary and Secondary Schools in Mexico", presented by the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education. The data are compared with international information on the magnitude of observed school violence, and alternative suggestions are made for exploring the problem at school, based on the results given in the analyzed report. Considering the reservations indicated in the article, the comparison identifies countries that report lesser and greater proportions of violence among their students [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The question about school violence continues increasing the worries of community members and researchers, since its establishment as a disciplinary problem three decades ago. However, a great part of the research in the area has focused in the statistical incidence of the phenomenon and the factors that determine it, leaving aside in a large part of them, the actors’ own representations. The present article seeks to respond to the query for the sense of the school violence, extracted from a qualitative study, which analyzed the speech and representations of Chilean high school students, considered aggressive and problematic by their educational institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]