Expression of jeering experienced by adolescents who go in for sports, who do not and who belong to risk group and of their jeering at coevals

At school every child has to feel important and safe. But the reality is absolutely different. Lithuanian and foreign scientists point out that at schools the scale of aggressiveness and jeering grows and as proven by empirical research (Palujanskiene, Uzdila, 2004; Povilaitis, Valiukeviciute, 2004; Zaborskis, Vareikiene, 2008; Andreou, 2001; DeRosier, 2004; Christian & Kashiwagi, 2007; Carlson, Cornell, 2008 and others) there are children who constantly experience jeering from coevals at school. It is indicated that the frequency of experiencing jeering and jeering from other schoolboys/girls at Lithuanian schools is higher than in other European countries (Zaborskis, Cirtautiene, Zemaitiene, 2005). Based on the data of 1994–2002 international schoolboys/girls’ health and living research, in Lithuania every third 11–15 year old schoolboy/girl experiences jeering from other schoolboys/girls 2–3 times a month or more frequently. Almost the same part of schoolboys/girls is jeering at coevals (Zaborskis, Cirtautiene, Zemaitiene, 2005). The research carried out in Lithuania in year 2003 proved that jeering from coevals at least once was experienced by approximately 70 percent of schoolboys/girls. As much as 60 percent of children, who participated in the research, confessed that sometimes they are jeering at their coevals (Povilaitis, Valiukeviciute, 2004). By the year 2008 research also proved that at least 2–3 times a month jeering was experienced by more than half (52.3 percent) of Lithuanian schoolboys/girls who participated in the research, who were jeering victims of other schoolboys/girls (18.3 percent), or were jeering at other schoolboys/girls (17.9 percent) themselves, or experienced both (16.1 percent) (Zaborskis, Vareikiene, 2008). Thus in the recent years particularly much attention is devoted to the research into aggressive behaviour of young people: jeering intensiveness, forms, differences by gender, consequences for personal psychosocial health (Wilson, 2006; McGuckin & Lewis, 2006; Targamadze, Valeckiene, 2007; San Antonio & Salzfass, 2007; Zaborskis, Vareikiene, 2008; Fleming, Jacobsen, 2009 and others) is analyzed and effective ways and means how to solve this problem are sought. Research subject: the expression of experienced jeering of forms 5–10 (age 12–15) adolescents who go in for sports, who do not and who belong to risk group and jeering implemented by themselves. Research aim: to reveal the influence of gender, out-of-school activities factors (attendance of sports and children day centre) on the frequency of experienced jeering and their jeering at coevals by adolescents of forms 5–10. Research objectives: 1) to determine the influence of gender, age, out-of-school activity factors (attendance of sports and children day centre) on the expression of jeering experienced by adolescents at forms 5–10; 2) to evaluate the influence of gender, age and out-of-school activity factors on jeering at coevals frequency; 3) to disclose the relationship of person’s experienced jeering and frequency of his jeering at other coevals.