According to available research results, the relation between psychological and/or physical violence experienced by youths as victims within the family and violence at school with youths as perpetrators is particularly close.
And yet it should not be generally assumed that the development of violence among youths at school is causally determined by their social background and the family experience linked to it.

The project is trying to determine factors of violence resiliency, i.e. to find out how youths with family conditions that hamper the development of violence-free conflict alternatives can still develop (contra-intuitively but still surprisingly unambiguously) unexpectedly positively in the violence sector , i.e. violence-free.

The results of the project are to deliver information which will be used to create effective measures for families and schools. The concrete objective is to identify factors which encourage a violence-free development at school and in leisure time even under difficult family socialisation conditions. In doing so, we highlight factors which seem malleable in families, schools and extracurricular peer context, and which allow the development of guidelines for creating effective measures. Led by the extremely fruitful violence intersectionality debate we examine the heterogeneity of the violence socialisation according to sex, cultural background and social standing. These results are meant to form the basis for specific support measures.

To achieve that, we carry out a cross-sectional study divided into a quantitative and a qualitative part. In the first step a total of 3400 14 to 15 year-old students are to be interviewed using a questionnaire in Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Spain. This survey will be done by a German Research Institute (SOKO) in cooperation with a research institute in Spain and in Slovenia. Our aim is to collect data on violence socialisation in family, school and leisure time. This initial step of data collection ought to provide a first quantitatively oriented perimeter of relevant factor sectors concerning violence resiliency. In a second, successive step the procedural aspect of these factors will be examined by means of matched samples interviews on violence socialisation, altogether in five countries. 80 pairs of youths (20 pairs per country) with similar preconditions (e.g. sex, language acquisition level, familial and school socialisation) but with different violence behaviour will be surveyed. In the process, the violence experienced in the family and the violence committed by the youths will be varied. Following that, the reasons for the dissimilarity of a given pair need to be found. We expect from the analysis of such data on the one hand a deeper understanding of the interrelations which also influence the violence socialisation of stressed youths and on the other hand indications towards factors that may balance unfavourable preconditions.