Violent and destructive behavior among Romanian secondary and high school students

This study had two objectives.The first one was the evaluation of the prevalence of violent and destructive behavior among secondary school and high school students from Romania. The second objective was the identification of individual and familial factors associated with these behaviors. The study included 630 secondary school students and 568 high school students from two counties (Cluj and Hunedoara), which filled in an anonymous questionnaire. The results underlines the necessity of developing complex measure for the prevention and reduction of violent and destructive behavior among Romanian adolescents, which should act at different levels: individual, familial, school level and the community.