Estrategias de afrontamiento de los adolescentes frente a situaciones de acoso escolar

Abstract

In the research, it was proposed to identify the coping strategies that adolescents used to deal with the specific situation of bullying, participated students of the Armed Forces Educational Unit Military School No. 4 Abdón Calderón of the city of Cuenca. This investigation was quantitative of descriptive scope, of transverse and non-probabilistic type; The applied instrument consists of a sociodemographic sheet and the ACS Scale of Coping for Adolescents in its specific form, this form of the scale consists of a section that mentions my main concern is, which allows the researcher to reveal specific problematic situations that they are part of the daily life of adolescents and to evaluate how they face them, in order to comply with the objectives of this research, situations of bullying were considered. The population consisted of 215 adolescents between 12 and 14 years old. The results indicate that the use of the physical distraction coping strategy is the most used by adolescent participants in situations of bullying. Likewise, the types of coping strategies according to sex are described, observing that male and female adolescents use physical distraction as a dominant strategy. In terms of age, 12-year-olds score high in search of relaxing diversions, while those of 13 and 14 years old are more focused on physical distraction. Finally, it is observed that the coping style aimed at solving the problem is the one adolescents use to a greater extent.