An empirical investigation of perceived violence in communication in six different university settings in Romania

This paper is the result of a research that examined, analyzed and interpreted the differences in the perceptions of violence in communication in six different university settings in Romania, by investigating the relative and the combined influence of the place and frequency of violence with relevance to the response. The study utilized a new analytic framework for understanding the personalized perception of violence through a self-administered questionnaires divided into five sections, investigating the socio-demographic data, the presence of violence as a problem of the main issue, the places, the frequencies, the perception of different forms of verbal and non-verbal violence in communication and their induced response. The data were analyzed by using statistical elements. The findings have suggested that communication is far from being a neutral way even in the same country and everyday life perceptions of violence can induce a specific response.