Table 5.

Rates of students’ reports of emotional and physical violence behaviors from children at school (n=434)

	Total		Female students		Male students
	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)	p*
Emotional violence
Mocking or teasing	191	(44.0)	100	(46.7)	91	(41.4)	0.303
Being called by an undesired nickname or name	177	(40.8)	89	(41.6)	88	(40.0)	0.811
Scaring	171	(39.4)	75	(35.0)	96	(43.6)	0.083
Forcing them to do undesired acts	78	(18.0)	35	(16.4)	43	(19.5)	0.459
At least one type of emotional violence	268	(61.8)	136	(63.6)	132	(60.0)	0.508
Physical violence
Hitting	86	(19.8)	32	(15.0)	54	(24.5)	0.017
Seizing their stuff or money	47	(10.8)	16	(7.5)	31	(14.1)	0.039
Threatening them with a knife or a gun	23	(5.3)	3	(1.4)	20	(9.1)	0.001
At least one type of physical violence	108	(24.9)	40	(18.7)	68	(30.9)	0.005

^*Chi-square test