Stalking Victimization: A Study about the Prevalence in College Students

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n250031

Abstract

Stalking refers to persistent harassment behaviors that occur in forms of communication,
contact, surveillance, and monitoring of an individual. This study aimed to find data on victimization by stalking in 205 college students at a university in an inland city of São Paulo, using the Inventário de Vitimação por Stalking (IVS) developed in Portugal, due to the scarcity of studies on the subject in Brazil. The data collected through the IVS were analyzed using descriptive statistics, considering the group of participants in its total and divided according to gender, age, marital status and course of study, established by the data obtained from the questionnaire of identification. The results revealed that most survey participants (50,4%, n= 104) have experienced stalking according to the definition established by the IVS.

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Mariana Tordin Boen

Graduada em Psicologia pela Universidade São Francisco, pós-graduanda em Criminologia e Direito Penal pelo Instituto de Criminologia e Política Criminal em parceria com o Centro Universitário Uninter. Realizou intercâmbio acadêmico na Universidade do Minho, em Portugal.

Fernanda Luzia Lopes, Universidade São Francisco

Psicóloga, mestre e doutora em Psicologia pela Universidade São Francisco. Docente do curso de Psicologia da Universidade São Francisco e da FAE Centro Universitário. Docente do curso de pós-graduação Lato Sensu em Psicologia do Trânsito da Universidade São Francisco.

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2019-09-05

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Boen, M. T., & Lopes, F. L. (2019). Stalking Victimization: A Study about the Prevalence in College Students. Revista Estudos Feministas, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n250031

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Vol. 27 No. 2 (2019)

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