University hazing: amusement or embarrassment among health academics?

Abstract

The study aimed to identify among academics the opinion about participation in freshmen hazing and possibleconstraints related. Two hundred and two students with a mean age of 20 years participated, whichcorresponds to 80.8% of the students of the institution. The majority (77.5%) does not see hazing as embarrassmentand 67.8% has participated on it to join the course. Among those who perceive hazing as violence,there was no difference between gender and course (p> .05). If most of the students evaluated positively thehazing, even feeling constrained about it, one might question the extent to which higher education institutionscan continue admitting hazing as a rite of passage or to what extent it should sort it process as oppressive,though naturalized.