Prevalencia de sexting y cyberbullying en adolescentes de dos colegios urbanos de la ciudad de Loja

Abstract

The present investigation is of descriptive quantitative type of transversal cut, whose objective was to characterize the sexting and cyberbullying in adolescents of 15 to 18 years of Unified General Baccalaureate of two educational institutions of the city of Loja. Two scale instruments were applied to measure the sexting variable, the Sexting Behavior Scale (ECS) was applied, and the European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionnaire (ECIPQ) scale was applied to measure the cyberbullying variable. We worked with a sample of 341 adolescents of both sexes, the results showed that 73.3% of the students had practiced sexting and 43.7% cyberbullying. The cell phone and Facebook were the technological resource and social network most used by adolescents to perform such behaviors, the active disposition towards sexting was of an emotional and relational type. The existence of a statistically significant relationship between the variables sex and cyberbullying, age and cyberbullying and intense and repeated harassment with social networks was also determined. From which we conclude in this research, that sexting and cyberbullying are present behaviors in adolescence as a way of relating among peers.