Violence among high school female students in Baghdad City Abed-Ali Hawraa K1,*, Qassim Wissam J2 1Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Baghdad, Baghdad City, Iraq 2Head of Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Baghdad, Baghdad City, Iraq *Corresponding author: Hawraa K. Abed-Ali. Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Baghdad, Baghdad City, Iraq
Online published on 1 November, 2018. Abstract This study aims to determine the level of emotional, physical, and verbal violence among students, identify the association between student's age and type of school violence, and investigate the differences in types of school violence between the groups of classes, school environment, watching Tv program or social media that include violent scenes. A descriptive correlational design has been conducted in this study. The study sample included a non-probability “purposive” sample of (300) female student; (150) students were selected from each side of Baghdad City. The study instruments consisted of two major parts. The first part focuses on students’ socio-demographic characteristics. The second part investigates the types of school violence. The data were analyzed by using two statistical approaches: Descriptive and Inferential statistics. The study revealed that the majority of participants experience a low level of emotional violence, the majority of participants experience a low level of physical violence, and most of participants experience a low level of verbal violence. There were statistically significant associations between participants’ age, number of the students in the class, and the level of exposure to emotional violence, physical violence, and verbal violence. Top Keywords Violence, High School Female Students. Top |