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

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Nowadays teenagers develop great skills in the field of technology to communicate and to inform them. Internet and phones are actually first order items at these days for preparation, developing, socialize and even for fun. But sometimes this great world of technology, can be used for teasing and annoy people by aggressive young kids, in other words, a new way of bullying. TARGET: Determine the characteristics of cyber bullying from the students of “CESAR DÁVILA HIGH SCHOOOL” METHODOLOGY: We did a descriptive quantitative study; the universe were the students of elementary school, to whom we applied a formulary modify of the protocol of scholar response against cyber bullying by EMICI (multidiscipline equipment of research for cyber bulling); for tabulation and to process the information we used a SPSS 15th version program; as statistics measures we used: frequency, media and percentages; for the presentation of data we made tables based on the targets; and for the analysis of information we used descriptive statistics. RESULTS: Cyber bullying presents on 11% of the students, 9.5% in males and 15% in females, the most common media to stalk are the social networks and the second one is text messaging. About the consequences: the 46% manifest low academy developing, 42% family and friends issues inside psychological problems, the 40 % feel depress and the third part of the victims feel that “it´s better to go away”. CONCLUTIONS: We detected cases of cyber bullying with female sex as the most common one, so we can say that here´s a gender problem.

KEY WORDS: CYBER BULLYING, VICTIMS, STUDENTS, AGGRESSORS, HARASSMENT, EXCLUSION, MANIPULATION.