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School Violence Questionnaire

In my first blog post, I'd like to present you a Hungarian questionnaire related to school bullying/violence. Please be aware that it is not an official translation, I translated everything into English myself. :)

The test was first published by Figula et al. in 2008.

It is a questionnaire with a 4 choice scale —> There are 70 items (33 of victims, 20 of bystanders, 17 of bullies) they have to mark one by one with one of these:

                1. Almost never

                2. Sometimes

                3. Often

                4. Almost everyday

The questionnaire has 5 dimensions/scales:

                1. Victim

                2. Assist

                3. Help-seeker

                4. Bystander

                5. Bully

All these 5 scales (except the “assist” one) have SUBSCALES, which are the following ones:

School Bullying Questionnaire scales

Amount of items

1) Victim scale

33

        Cognitive factor (conscious perception and process of bullying)

15

        Affection (emotional effect of harassment)

12

        Physical/Body reaction (physical reaction for bullying)

3

        Social support

3

2) Assist

3

3) Help-seeker scale

8

        Peace-making intervention

3

        Help-seeking intervention

2

        Affection (internal tension because of the seen violence)

3

4) Bystander scale

9

        Keeping distance

6

        Fear

3

5) Bully subscale

17

        Physical aggression

4

        Verbal aggression

5

        Exclusion

5

        Positive advantages (advantages coming from the assault)

3


How should we administer the test?

It can be used while individual or group testing, in a silent room with good lightning in it. If the person has dyslexia, the test can be read to him or her out loud in a face-to-face private situation, and the answers should be written down by the conductor of the test-taking. There is a given answer sheet where everyone can regist their answers individually.

The amount of time needed for taking the whole test is 15-25 minutes.

Examples:

0- almost never; 1- sometimes; 2- often; 3- almost everyday

            I am afraid of one of my classmates.    0  1  2  3

            One of my classmates usually bullies me.   0  1  2  3

            If somebody hurts me, I want to cry.   0  1  2  3


Overall we can say that this questionnaire is a good and DETAILED way of measuring bullying at schools by asking the students about it!


IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A DEEPER LOOK OF IT OR JUST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THE RESOURCE: 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334307289_ISKOLAI_EROSZAK_KERDOIV_felhasznaloi_kezikonyv


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