Incidencia del cyberbullying según el curso en una muestra de adolescentes colombianos

Abstract

Today the forms of communication have changed due to the rapid development of new technologies, which have been recording as persuasive, useful and even essential tool, which allows people to stay in constant communication with the various social events, economic, political, labor and personal (Spiegel, 2007; Correa & Cervantes, 2012); but they have led to violence symbolic type in children and adolescents, characterized by intimidation, discrimination, harassment, impersonation and aggression through the Internet and mobile phone (Cuevas, 2006; Monks et al, 2009; Buelga & Pons, 2012). In Colombia the phenomenon of Cyberbulling has not been studied much today so the aim of this study was to analyze and describe the incidence of cyberbullying through new information and communications technology (Internet and cell phone), examining the any differences that may arise regarding the grade. The sample consisted of 1080 adolescent students from four schools in Bucaramanga and its metropolitan area (Colombia) (N = 437 boys, N = 643 girls). The results indicated that 17.4% (by cell phone) and 21.8% (over the Internet) of the sample has been the victim of cyberbullying at least once; the duration of this is for the vast majority of victims less than or equal to one month. In addition, the differences between grades, the results indicate that with regard to cell phone no statistically significant differences between the grades studied while as the internet, the only differences presented relate to the sixth grade in aggression of harassment and in tenth grade aggression violation of privacy.