The relationship between peer bullying and PTSS in refugee schoolchildren.

Abstract

Objective: This study explored the relationship between Peer bullying (PB) and Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology (PTSS) in a sample of refugee Syrian schoolchildren in Jordanian schools. Method:The study sample was composed of 116 Syrian refugees (female = 62, 53.4% male = 54, 46.6%) ages 9-18 years with a mean age of 14.5 years (SD 1.18) who had been in Jordan for at least 3 years and were studying in five public schools (three for females and two for males) located in Irbid and Mafraq governorates in the northern area of Jordan between the June 14, 2018 and the March 20, 2019. Results: The results indicated that 116 children out of 180 (64.4%) suffer from high levels of PB (physical M = 1.47, verbal M = 1.41, and relational M = 1.35). The most prevailing type of bullying was the physical type, followed by the verbal and the relational types. Moreover, the three types of PB were positively and significantly correlated with PTSS (physical, r = .20, p , .05, verbal, r = .26, p , .01, relational, r = .22, p , .05), and (total PB, r = .43, p , .05). PB accounted for 14% of the variability in PTSS. Finally, the results did not indicate any significant differences in PB by gender, age, length of exposure to PB, living conditions, or disability. Conclusions: This study may provide a deeper understanding of the need to develop more thorough, institutionalized as well individualized, interventions to reduce PB against schoolchildren from a refugee background in schools. Clinical Impact StatementStudying the relationship between peer bullying for refugee schoolchildren and PTSS may contribute to enhancing the school environments and promoting safety and security settings. This can help in designing and implementing specialized interventions to prevent bullying against vulnerable students.

Relación entre la afectividad y la conducta de bullying en el agresor y la víctima

“…Olweus (1978) presenta el concepto de bullying en la década de los años 70 refiriéndose al término en inglés "bull" que traducido al español tiene como significado toro, en sentido figurado, se considera a las acciones que una persona embiste por encima de otra, sin premeditar las consecuencias. Estas acciones son ejecutadas por diversas vías como la física, psicológica y relacional que reportan correlaciones significativas con sintomatología de estrés postraumático y tasas más altas de depresión, ansiedad y suicidio (Tang et al, 2020;Damra et al, 2022). Además de ello, las investigaciones sugieren que dichas conductas agresivas suelen presentarse de forma directa e indirecta.…”