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School bullying is a common, problematic behavior among children that can have long-term adverse consequences for the victims of bullying. School bullying may take many forms, such as physical, verbal, and relational or social. So the purpose of this study was to compare physical victimization among male and female high schools students of Boukan city in Iran in academic year 2013-14. Four schools were selected by random cluster sampling. Data collected using Iranian form of bullying victimization scale (B.V.S) and analysed with descriptive statistics (Mean, Standard Deviation) and inferential statistics (One Way Variance test) using SPSS 19 software. The results showed that gender was a meaningful factor for predicting physical victimization among students thus boys had meaningfully higher average scores than girls. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijls.v9i3.12440   International Journal of Life Sciences 9 (3): 2015; 9-12

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between mental health, perceived social support, and death anxiety, and the predictive roles of mental health and perceived social support in the explanation of death anxiety in a sample of adults with chronic kidney disease. Methods: A demographic questionnaire, the Symptom Check List−25, the Social Support Survey Scale, and the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) were used in the present study. The sample consisted of 58 adult patients with chronic kidney failure. Results: Findings showed that mental health had significantly positive relationships to the total score of the death anxiety and the fear of death, the fear of pain and disease, and the death thoughts subscales of the DAS. Social support had a significant negative relationship to the total score of the death anxiety and the fear of pain and disease, the death thoughts, and the transient time and the short life subscales of the DAS. Mental health and combined mental health and social support explained 14% and 21% of death anxiety variation in patients with chronic kidney failure, respectively. Conclusion: Mental health and social support constructs can relatively predict the variations of death anxiety in patients with chronic kidney failure.

School bullying and peer victimization are major social problems affecting children and adolescents in all parts of the world. School bullying may take many forms, such as physical, verbal, and relational or social. So the purpose of this study was to compare verbal victimization among male and female high schools students of Boukan city in Iran in academic year 2013-14. Four schools were selected by random cluster sampling. Data collected using Iranian form of bullying victimization scale (B.V.S) and analysed with descriptive statistics (Mean, Standard Deviation) and inferential statistics (One Way Variance test) using SPSS 19 software. The results showed that gender was a meaningful factor for predicting verbal victimization among students thus boys had meaningfully a higher average score than girls. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijls.v9i3.12460   International Journal of Life Sciences 9 (3): 2015; 13-17

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