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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

after-school, violence, Samoa, school rivalries

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Psychology

Abstract

In the Polynesian Islands of Samoa, there is a prevalence of after-school violence associated with school rivalries that is of serious concern to the local governments and community members. There is a paucity of research done in Samoa concerning adolescent aggression. Thus, the need for research is great. Samoan newspapers frequently report inter-school violence and a plethora of acts of aggression amongst the Samoan adolescents (e.g. Samoa Observer April 12, 2010). These acts of violence are often planned and executed by the students of several different school districts, unbeknownst to school officials. Although rarely do these scuffles involve guns, it is not atypical for participants to use other weapons, such as knives, baseball bats, or bottles; thus, significant physical injury can result. Although this particular phenomenon seems specific to Samoa, it is not unlike inter-group violence in other cultures (Bratt 2004, p. 46).

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