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The Peer School Victimisation Scale (VE-I) provides a reliable way of studying different forms of bullying.
School violence among peers has serious consequences for the victims. Victimisation can be direct, through physical and verbal aggression, and relational, through exclusion and social rejection. The Peer School Victimisation Scale (VE-I), which consists of 11 items related to different forms of victimisation, was created to provide a reliable instrument for the study of these forms of bullying and violence.
Participants are presented with eleven sentences describing behaviours that some boys and girls in their school engage in, and must answer whether any of their peers have behaved similarly towards them.
They must rate from 1 to 5 how often they may have experience these situations, being:
- Never happened to me
- Has only happened once
- A few times in the last month
- Several times in the last month
- Happens often
Depending on the degree of response to certain questions, situations of relational, verbal or physical victimisation can be detected.
The BIPSIA Research Group makes this instrument available to the rest of the scientific community for free use in research on this subject.
The scale has been successfully used in several research studies published in scientific journals.
