Harassment during hazing in a Portuguese public university

Authors

  • Catarina Sales Oliveira Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade da Beira Interior CIES-IUL
  • Susana Villas-Boas Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra. CEMRI
  • Soledad Las Heras

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2015803303

Abstract

Hazing consists in a set of practices hold by the senior university students which aim to welcome and integrate the new students. A major objective of this study is to serve as an empirical basis for the discussion of this practice within the academic community of a Portuguese university. It used an analytical approach based on the concept of harassment. It was applied an adaptation of the survey Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror (LIPT). We found that the large majority of participants (92.8%) were exposed to at least one situation of harassment during hazing. The more frequent harassment behaviors found are limiting communication and dismissing people.

Author Biographies

Catarina Sales Oliveira, Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade da Beira Interior CIES-IUL

Socióloga. Doutora em Sociologia pelo ISCTE_IUL. Docente do departamentode Sociologia da Universidade da Beira Interior e investigadora do Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Sociologia (CIES-IUL).End: Departamento de Sociologia, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas,Universidade da Beira Interior. Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã –Portugal. Email: csbo@ubi.pt

Susana Villas-Boas, Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra. CEMRI

Educóloga. Mestre em Educação e Formação de Adultos e atualmente Doutoranda em Ciências da Educação na Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra.Investigadora do Centro de estudos das Migrações e das Relações Interculturais da Universidade Aberta de Lisboa (CEMRI).

Soledad Las Heras

Socióloga. Mestre em Estrutura Social e Sociologia da Educação pela Universidade Complutense de Madrid. Colaboradora no projeto UBIgual.End: Departamento de Sociologia, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade da Beira Interior. Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã – Portugal.

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Published

2015-12-30

Issue

No. 80 (2016)

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