Violência entre os escolares dos anos finais do ensino fundamental do estado do Pará: análises de dados da PeNSE, 2015

Abstract

Vulnerability to youth violence has been the object of studies to assess school performance, since exposure to violence and situations that come together with violence can cause great damage to the individual, from poor academic performance, resulting in school dropout, or even violent behavior, indiscipline, criminality, etc. This work is a descriptive case study carried out with secondary data acquired from the database of the National School Health Survey - PeNSE carried out in 2015. The sample is composed of adolescents aged 13 to 17 years old who were attending the 9th year of elementary school in the year 2015 in the state of Pará, Brazil. The database was built in the Microsoft Excel 2019 program, where graphs were also created for better visualization of the results. Among the results, it was observed that 53% of the students were female, 58% were brown, and about 14% did not live with their mother and about 41% did not live with their father. Only 15% of the students' mothers had completed higher education; 28% of students lived with 4 people, including themselves. 42% of students intended to attend graduate school; about 40% of students have been bullied at some point in their lives and 5% reported that physical appearance was the reason for bullying; 17% of students said they had already practiced bullying. Approximately 5% of students said they had already been forced to have sexual intercourse with someone, and 3.5% of the sample stated that they were forced by a family member, friend or acquaintance to have sexual intercourse. It is noteworthy that children are in the process of personal personality formation and that everything that involves them socially is important at this time. Situations of violence experienced and/or witnessed in childhood can negatively influence young people to the point of having negative repercussions for life.