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Gender-Based Violence in Primary Schools: Malawi. Echidna Global Scholar Alumni Brief Series
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Samati, Madalo – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2021
Gender-based violence (GBV) is the most pervasive yet least recognized human rights violation in the world (Heise, Ellsberg, and Gottmoeller 2002). No longer only a general community issue, GBV has also infiltrated social places such as schools. Despite numerous interventions to curb GBV in general, and school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Incidence
Protective Factors for Violent Victimization in Schools: A Gendered Analysis
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Pusch, Natasha – Journal of School Violence, 2019
While the link between childhood abuse and future victimization has been developed, the effects of other negative events in childhood on future victimization, and whether protective factors may guard against it, remains unclear. To address this topic, the relationships between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), protective factors, and violent…
Descriptors: Violence, Victims, Grade 8, Grade 10
The Relationship between Parental Abuse and Psychological Safety of the Children at the City of Amman and the Central Valleys of Jordan
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Al-Anani, Hanan Abd Al-Hameed – International Education Studies, 2015
The purpose of this study was to identify the degree of parental abuse and psychological security of the child, as well as the degree differences of these variables, based on the gender, the age and place of residency. The aim of this study also was to detect the relationship between parental abuse and the psychological security of the child. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Safety, Child Abuse, Parenting Styles
Do Children Really Mean What They Say? The Forensic Implications of Preschoolers' Linguistic Referencing
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Battin, David B.; Ceci, Stephen J.; Lust, Barbara C. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2012
This study compared younger (M = 53 months) and older (M = 90 months) children's use of linguistic referential devices to make a positive identification. Children were shown a 4-minute video that concluded with a wrongful act. They were interviewed 24 hours later and asked to identify the perpetrator of the wrongful act with open-ended and…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Persuasive Discourse, Child Abuse, Linguistics
Student Victimization by Peers in Elementary Schools: Individual, Teacher-Class, and School-Level Predictors
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Khoury-Kassabri, Mona – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Objectives: This study examined individual and contextual factors that explain students' victimization by peers among 4th- through 6th-grade Jewish and Arab students. Method: A total of 120 homeroom teachers and 3,375 students from 47 schools participated. The study explored how students' reports of violence are influenced by individual factors…
Descriptors: Jews, Intervention, Violence, Self Efficacy
True and False Memories in Maltreated Children
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Howe, Mark L.; Cicchetti, Dante; Toth, Sheree L.; Cerrito, Beth M. – Child Development, 2004
Differences in basic memory processes between maltreated and nonmaltreated children were examined in an experiment in which middle-socioeconomic-status (SES; N=60), low-SES maltreated (N=48), and low-SES nonmaltreated (N=51) children (ages 57, 89, and 10-12 years) studied 12 Deese-Roediger-McDermott lists. Using recall and recognition measures,…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Child Abuse, Memory, Recognition (Psychology)