VRŠNJAČKO NASIlJE U PERIODU RANE ADOLESCENCIJE
The Peer’s Violence in the Period of the Early Adolescence

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of peer violence coincides with the emergence of man, society and the civilization. Since then until today, this phenomenon has kept continuity and actuality, although at certain epochs of the development of society it has been manifesting itself with different intensities, forms, types and consequences. Regardless of this indisputable fact, peer violence has become a focus of more general, social, and educational interests in the last three to four decades. Firstly, it was thoroughly studied by the Scandinavian countries, and later, by the other most developed countries of the world.Considering the actuality and intensity of peer violence, in this paper, based on a critical analysis of domestic and foreign sources, the essential understanding of peer violence has been defined and elaborated. Based on relevant theoretical and empirical knowledge, we could argue that peer violence in early adolescence is recognizable by the persistent attempts to separate an individual from the parents, searching for one's own identity, and a cramped struggle for self-isolation of an individual. Among other things, it has been shown that the children of that age are unconditionally prepared to sacrifice in order to establish closer relationships with their peers outside the family. Often, their peers become the most reliable supporters for achieving their actual, but at the same time very turbulent and vague, life goals and dreams. This is actually the period of transition of pupils from lower to higher classes of elementary education, characterized by numerous, turbulent and serious anatomical, physiological, psychological, social and other changes of essential importance for the development and formation of the personality of each individual. In this context, basic types and forms of peer violence have been studied in order to identify them better and to comprehensively examine the possible consequences for the individuals or groups of adolescents.

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