Sexual violence against in-school female adolescents

Abstract

This study concentrated on the magnitude, pattern, and characteristics of women who experienced sexual violence. It was analyzed in 3 subgroups: lower secondary school, upper secondary school, and vocational college. The research embraced a school-based survey of 652 female students, 15 in-depth interview informants, and 3 focus groups' discussion. The result revealed highest percentage among vocational students in all direct types; these were 39.3% of contact sexual abuse, 20.5% of attempted rape, and 24.2% of complete rape. It is that the figure was lower than actual because of their friends' experiences, former findings and realizing fieldwork. It was, interestingly, an increment in all evidences among lower secondary school students. It involved cultural violence in experience of first sexual abuse in form of no touching such as stalking, and rude talks that most female students still did unrealized. Peer context was the most important risk factor of becoming sexual abuse survivors as well as family context.