Abstract

FRANCO, Silvia  and  PUGLIA, Maximiliano. Violence in university students in Latin America. Prevalence and reflections on the university communities we build. InterCambios [online]. 2023, vol.10, n.1, pp.97-112.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 2301-0118.  https://doi.org/10.29156/inter.10.1.10.

The objective of this work has been to compare prevalences of violence experienced by students on their respective Latin American university campuses through a review of the literature.

Method. The review was carried out by selecting scientific publications of studies in Latin American universities between the years 2010 and 2020 that contained words such as harassment, cyberbullying, abuse, moral harassment, school harassment, bullying, mobbing, sexual harassment and sexual abuse together with university and students as the affected population.

Results. The means of the collected prevalence are: bullying, 32,28 %; sexual harassment, 29,26 %; cyberbullying, 33,66 % and gender violence, 57,30 %.

Conclusions. The differences found in the definitions, nomenclatures, methodologies, and type of measurements, as well as the epistemological perspectives of the authors, they make the studies not comparable to each other (for example, minimum and maximum values of bullying show a very high dispersion: 10 % to 91 % in the different studies). However, the results refer to high rates of violence against students in Latin American universities, which confirms its existence. This scenario invites us to think both from a scientific perspective about the need to establish agreements to make comparable measures from a critical and human perspective, to reflect on how we make community and what commitment and actions we can work towards in order to generate other ways of social and university relations.

Keywords : violence; prevalence; university students; university community.

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