Características del Ciberbullying en los estudiantes de la Unidad Educativa César Dávila Andrade. Cuenca. Ecuador. 2013

Abstract

Antecedents: Currently adolescents develop perfectly in the use of information, technology and communication. The internet and mobile phones have become prime instruments for training, development, socialization and fun; however, sometimes they may not make good use of technology and rather some adolescents with an aggressive personality use these means to disrupt their peers and make new forms of bullying. Objective: To determine the characteristics of cyberbullying among students of “César Dávila Andrade” High School. Methodology: A quantitative descriptive study was made. The universe was conformed by the all students of the basic cycle, who were applied a modified form of the Protocol Acting School to cyberbullying from the MRTC (Multidisciplinary Research Team for Cyberbullying); for tabulation and information processing, the SPSS program, version 15 was used; as statistical measures some frequencies, averages, and percentages were used; and for the presentation of data, tables according to the objectives were drawn up, and finally for the information analysis, a descriptive statistics was used. Results: The cyberbullying occurs in 11% of the students: 9.5% in males and 15% in females; the most used media to bully are the social networks with 52%, followed by 21.7% mobile messaging; within academic consequences 34.2% have no desire to go to school, 47.4% have lowered their grades; in relation to family problems 42% have problems with their parents and siblings and according to psychological problems about 40% feel depressed and third of the victims of cyberbullying declare: “believe it is better disappear.” CONCLUSIONS: Cyberbullying cases were detected predominantly in females which shows a gender component