Constantly beating each other brutally, why are students increasingly ‘aggressive’?

Recently, in the provinces of TT-Hue, Quang Tri… there have been a series of student fights. It is worth mentioning that these incidents mainly occur outside the school campus – where there is a lack of supervision of the educational environment.

A 10th grade female student in TT-Hue suffered a concussion by her friend. Provide family photos

It is worth mentioning that most of the cases of students fighting stem from petty conflicts in life, badmouthing each other on social networks or from the incitement of friends.

Sharing with VietNamNet, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Hung – Dean of the Faculty of Psychology & Education (University of Education – Hue University) said that school violence is a specific manifestation of aggressive behavior, in which aggressive behavior is understood as hostile behavior, related to feelings of despair and hopelessness, clearly expressed by the intensity of verbal expressions (threats, criticisms, slander), behavior (insults) , beatings) and attitudes (hostile glances).

According to Dr. Hung, the situation of school violence has been increasing and is increasing in nature and level not only between individuals but also groups against individuals. occurs with male students but also with female students.

In particular, there is a situation where many students witness school violence but do not intervene but promote, exhort, record videos and post them online.

Mr. Hung said that there are many reasons leading to the increase in domestic violence, including subjective and objective causes.

The subjective cause lies in the psychological development of the children. The stage of pubertal development has rapid physical changes but is not balanced, so there are unstable, sometimes impulsive, and uncontrollable psychological features.

This makes them easily manipulated, agitated and especially do not know how to control their emotions, lack skills in how to resolve conflicts that occur in life.

Objective causes are viewed from many angles, including family, society and school.

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Hung – Dean of Faculty of Psychology & Education, Hue University of Education. Photo: Character provided

From a family perspective, students rarely receive parental pedagogy, or are always under pressure from their parents, or they are often attacked by violent words and behaviors from adults in the family. family, often being scolded, beaten by grandparents, parents, siblings or witnessed violent acts of family members.

From there, negatively impact and promote aggressive behavior for students.

The social environment is also an important cause of school violence. According to Dr. Nguyen Thanh Hung, most cases of school violence often happen to teenagers living in communities with poor living environment, low educational attainment, poverty, and many people who drop out of school. early, promiscuous, where there are many social evils.

Such an environment has impacted and influenced the development and self-improvement process of students. In particular, the management and supervision mechanism, as well as the inadequate and timely handling of school violence cases are also the causes that have a significant impact on the increase in this situation.

From the school’s perspective, students have to “burden” the program content, sometimes they are still heavily equipped with knowledge, lack of experiential lessons, lack of sharing and bonding activities, and lack of suitable clubs. with interests and peculiarities.

In particular, schools still lack psychological counseling rooms or have counseling rooms, but they do not have well-trained experts in counseling and psychological counseling.

“If school violence continues to increase, it will lead to a consequence that hinders the personality development of students as well as the image of the school and creates anxiety in the whole society. ”, emphasized Mr. Hung.

According to the Dean of the Department of Psychology & Education at Hue University of Education, a series of school violence cases that have taken place in recent years have left heavy consequences on families, schools, society and directly the students. .

Accordingly, after each incident, abused children can be severely affected physically, with body scratches, bleeding, broken arms and legs, brain injuries.

In the long term, they may suffer from mild to severe psychological trauma, leading to anxiety, insomnia, stress, fatigue, fear…don’t want to interact with others, afraid to come. school, afraid of meeting strangers.

Just because of breaking the license plate, a 7th grader in Quang Tri was beaten and hospitalized by 2 8th graders. Provide family photos

For the children who cause violence or witness the incident, at first, they do not think about the consequences of their behavior, but when they realize the consequences, they also live in fear, being scolded by their parents, being scolded by their parents. Disciplinary school, may be interfered by law, must compensate for material as well as mental harm.

This greatly affects the development, thinking and character formation of children later.

According to Dr. Nguyen Thanh Hung – the age of high school students is considered a “rebellious” age, the formation and development of personality is associated with great changes in the psychology of students.

Therefore, to solve school violence, it is necessary to have the cooperation of the whole community, the connection between family education, school education and society.

Families need to pay more attention to and share with their children, grasp the characteristics of their children’s psycho-physiological development, use methods of education Actively building a family education environment with love and sharing.

For schools, it is necessary to equip students with more life skills, especially skills in managing emotions, resolving conflicts, giving them many playgrounds, many healthy activities, and ideas. and age-appropriate.

Schools and families need to set up many information channels to regularly contact, exchange, and promptly grasp the psycho-physiological manifestations of students in order to promptly handle arising situations.

Strictly discipline cases of school violence, but still uphold the principles of education”, emphasized Dr. Nguyen Thanh Hung.

Nguyen Thanh Hung – Quang Thanh