Bullying and Violence in Adolescents of Jaipur City, Rajasthan: A Neglected Concept

Abstract

Introduction: Adolescent health is itself a neglected topic so as the bullying, the young fragile adolescents who are already going through physical, psychological and hormonal changes have to pay a toll by bullying and its associated violence. Objective: The purpose of this study is to ind the proportion of school going adolescents with Bullying and Violence related behavior and its associated variables. Method: Total 900 students of both government and private schools having co-education facility and having all the three streams i.e., science, commerce, and arts were included. Indianized version, of YRBS questionnaire was used, the questionnaire was modiied by three senior Professors of the department and made suitable for the use in Indian context. Results: Most of the participants were in age group 13-16 years and majorities were Hindu. Out of 900 adolescent 33.34 % belongs to high risk of Violence and bullying behaviour. Students of commerce stream (48%) break into more ight than art stream (16.80%). Approximately six percent were threatened or injured with a weapon such as gun, knife or sticks on school campus in past 12 months, majority for their selfdefence only 2% did it to harm someone. Only 48 adolescents (05.30%) reported to be sexually abused and majority of abused were males (60.41%) and maximum number(68.75%) of times the Perpetrator were their dates followed by relatives. Conclusion: The risk of violence and bullying is relatively more in this budding generation which can be entertained by proper guidance and support by parents, teachers and friends.