Juan Luis Benítez Muñoz

Do negative acts in Italian academia have a quadratic relationship with determinants of health

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prevalence of workplace bullying in an Italian university. Design/methodology/approach – More than 200 workers have completed the Italian version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire and the General Health Questionnaire. Findings – The results show a spread of low to medium negative actions in the specific setting. In addition, the effects of negative actions on health are less serious than believed by most of the studies on workplace bullying. Originality/value – In particular, a quadratic regression model appears to be more appropriate than a linear model.

Incidencia de la violencia en la pareja en una muestra de adolescentes universitarios españoles

espanolEl presente trabajo aporta resultados sobre la violencia en parejas de estudiantes universitarios. En el estudio participan 571 sujetos (171 hombres y 400 mujeres) entre los 17 y los 21 anos de edad (=18,76; dt=1,204). El instrumento utilizado para la recogida de informacion es el Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationship Inventory – CADRI. El analisis de los datos se realiza con los programas SPSS 20.0 y EQS 6.1. Los resultados muestran que, tanto en la escala de violencia cometida como en la escala de violencia sufrida, los niveles mas altos de incidencia los encontramos en la violencia verbal seguida de la violencia relacional y fisica respectivamente; y que existen diferencias significativas entre hombres y mujeres en relacion a las variables analizadas. EnglishThis paper presents results about dating violence among university adolescent couples. 571 subjects participated in the research (171 males and 400 females), from 17 to 21 years old (average 18.76; sd=1.204). Data were collected through the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationship Inventory – CADRI, and analyzed by SPSS 20.0 and EQS 6.1. Results show that, both in the practiced violence scale and in the suffered violence scale, the highest incidence levels are found in verbal aggression followed by relational violence and physical violence respectively; significant differences between males and females are also found in the analyzed variables.