A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS IN TWO HIGH SCHOOLS WITH DIFFERENT STATUS REGARDING THE PHENOMENON OF BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

Bullying is described as a set of aggressive actions, characterized byintent, repetition and an imbalance of forces. These characteristics refer tothe fact that the aggressor chooses a weaker victim, who will beaggressively and repeatedly assaulted, usually in school. Wanting to explorethis topic locally through the eyes of the students, we conducted a researchto identify the differences in perception and attitude of the students from twodifferent high schools (a national college and a technological high school),regarding this phenomenon. The main hypothesis is that tensions anddifficulties in the school environment can affect the attitudes of studentsregarding violence. We applied a questionnaire to 72 students (36 fromeach high school) from Sighetu Marmatiei. The results show that thestudents from the technological high school, know more information aboutbullying, and they consider this phenomenon to be less frequent comparedto the students from the national college, and the feeling of being safe atschool is greater. Students from both high schools expressed pro-victimattitudes to a greater extent, but the attitude toward the aggressor was morenegative in the case of students from the national college and more positivein the other school. We can conclude that if the academic standards of thestudents are higher, there is more tension is the school atmosphere, whichcan generate bullying situations and feelings of insecurity at school.