Do we really have to talk about it

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• Do we really have to talk about it?
• Sexual abuse as perceived by teenagers

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Reflecting on violence

• Do we really have to talk about it?
• A video for a discussion
• with the teenagers in the schools

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Who are the interviewed?

• The Sample

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The Sample
Who are the interviewed?

• Composed by 96 students
• Coming from two florentine secondary schools
  Istituto Tecnico di agraria (Agricoltural
  College) (78) Istituto professionale di moda
• De Medici (Professional School of Fashion) (18)
• Mainly GIRLS 52, (55,9)
• AGED between 14 and 19, with a prevalence of the
  group of those aged 16 (37, 38,5) attending
  the third year. Girls are present in a greater
  number compared to the mean between the 14 and 15
  year old.

CLASSES OF AGE BASED ON GENDER (V.A.)
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The Families
Who are the interviewed?

• The interviewed live in families of DIFFERENT
  composition and dimensions
• NEARLY HALF OF THEM are composed by parents,
  brothers and/or sisters, mainly 4 people

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What we wanted their opinion about

• THE VIDEO
• THE SITUATION IN WHICH IT WAS PROPOSED

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The Video
What we wanted their opinion about

• FIRST IMPRESSIONS
• How did you feel watching this video?
• CONTENTS
• Is it possible to find situations of violence in
  the experience of teenagers?
• What kind of violence should a video for
  teenagers tackle?
• GENERAL EVALUATIONS
• the video is clear, useful, confused, boring,
  useless?
• the video is good, very good, sufficient,
  inadequate?

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The situation in which it was proposed
What we wanted their opinion about

• LIVING SUCH AN EXPERIENCE AT SCHOOL
• Is it useful, interesting and stimulating, or
  useless and boring?
• TOGETHER WITH OPERATORS DISCUSSING WITH BOYS AND
  GIRLS
• Was it stimulating?

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1. The Video
What do teenagers think about the video?
FIRST IMPRESSIONS

• For the 7.3 ? to reflect on a problem they have
  never tackled before
• Esp. YOUNGER BOYS (15.4)
• For the 38.5 ? to reflect in a DIFFERENT way on
  a problem you already know of
• Esp. OLDER BOYS (52.2)
• For the 41.7 ? to be confronted with SITUATIONS
  of which you already TALKED ABOUT in your family,
  at school or with friends
• Esp. YOUNGER GIRLS (53.6)
• For the 10.4 ? to live over again, with some
  emotion SITUATIONS LIVED BY PEOPLE CLOSE TO YOU
• OLDER GIRLS (13.8)

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What do they think of it ?
What do teenagers think of the video?

• The similarity of the situations in the video
  with the experiences of violence that teenagers
  of the same age, might find themselves involved
  in

The 79.2
thinks that the video is about true experiences
of the teenagers without differences due to
gender and age
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Contents based on gender
What do teenagers think of the video?
Valid cases 93 - Girls 57 Boys 36
GIRLS
BOYS

• GIRLS/BOYS feel the need TO DISCUSS, in
  particular, some kinds of violence
• Psychological abuse (average15.1) most of all
  boys (19.4)
• Sexual violence (average11.8), most of all
  girls (14)
• Bullyism (average10.8), most of all boys
  (19.4)

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Evaluation based on gender and age
What do teenagers think of the video?
Valid Cases 93 Boys 14/15 13 Boys
16/19 23 Girls 14/15 28 Girls 16/19 29

• POSITIVE aspects pointed out by the 68,1 of the
  interviewed, of which
• 44,7 totally favourable (esp. younger boys
  53,8)
• 23,4 with a few perplexities (esp. older boys
  34,8)
• CRITICAL aspects /call for deeper investigation,
  pointed out by the 30,8, esp. younger boys
  (38,5)

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Evaluation of the video based on first
impressions
What do teenagers think of the video?
Valid cases 96 - A 7 B 37 C 10 D 40 E
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• Even among the PERPLEXED / CRITICAL the video has
  made them
• think of a problem they had never tackled 57.1
  / 28.6
• see under a different light a problem already
  existing 16.2 / 32.4
• emotionally live over again close
  experiences 10 / 20
• see situations already present 27.5 / 32.5
• Only the 2 of the CRITICAL have not felt
  involved

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Indications on the contents based on the general
evaluation
What do teenagers think of the video?
Valid cases 94 Positive 42 Negative 30 Ambival.
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• The contents of the video its just fine
  ambivalent (77.3) - critical (43.3)
• Suggestions point out the need to reflect on
• FAVOURABLE ( younger boys) Psychological abuse
  (21.4) Bullism (16.7)
• PERPLEXED ( older boys) Psychological abuse
  (9.1)
• CRITICAL ( younger boys) Sexual violence (30)
  Sexual abuse (26.7)

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2. The experience at school
What do teenagers think of the experience at
school with the operators?
The importance of watching the video at school,
Compared to the general evaluation of the video

• For the majority (88.5) of the interviewed it
  was an IMPORTANT experience to discuss at school
  about violence
• EVEN those who have not valued the video
  positively
• The 95.5 of the AMBIVALENT
• The 71 of the CRITICAL

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2. The experience at school
What do teenagers think of the experience at
school with the operators?

• For the 98.9 it was positive to discuss
• a video on violence at school
• with the presence of the operators

• For the 52.2 ? comparison and exchange, has
  been an incentive
• For the 38 ? it helps to better understand
  the contents of the video
• For the 8.7 ? useful, but you could have
  watched the video without the operators
• For the 1.1 ? conditioned without the
  operators they would comment more freely

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ACTION TEENAGERS AGAINST VIOLENCE

• PROMOTED BY
• WOW-Women On Work OnlusLOCAL PARTNERS National
  Equal Opportunities Commission Tuscany Region
  County of FlorenceArtemisia Association of
  Women against Violence Gender scrl.Harno
  srl.Italia 7 Television TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERS
  GREECE Women Centre of KarditsaESPANA IMFE -
  Institut  Municipal de Formacion y Empleo de la
  Mujeres, andConsejalia de la Mujer,
  GranadaROMANIA Brasov County Council, Children
  Protection Department

• ATAV Project
• ACTION TEENAGERS
• AGAINST VIOLENCE
• European Commission
• Directorate-General Justice and Home Affairs
• Daphne Programme
• 2000-2003
• Preventive Measures to fight violence against
  children, teenagers and women