Variables that discriminate the profile of cyberbullying in mexican adolescents

• Main Authors: Remberto Castro Castañeda, Esperanza Vargas Jiménez, Adriana Igsabel Mora Santos, Esteban Agulló-Tomás
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas 2019-11-01
• Series: Revista de Psicología y Ciencias del Comportamiento de la Unidad Académica de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales
• Subjects: cyberbullying; family communication; school climate; self-concept; attitude towards authority
• Online Access: https://revistapcc.uat.edu.mx/index.php/RPC/article/view/322

The adolescent interacts in a real and virtual world with risks and benefits. This study aims to analyze variables that discriminate high and low cyber-bullying in adolescents. Self-concept scales (individual) were applied, open and offensive com-munication towards mother and father (family), affiliation and help of the teacher (school), positive attitude towards authority and positive attitude of transgression of norms (social). The sample is representative of the region with 95% reliability and .50 of population variance, formed by 1,681 mexican adolescents, men and women from 12 to 17 years old (M = 13.65, SD = 1.14), students beonging to the public and private institutions. A cluster and discriminant analysis was perfor-med. The results reveal that adolescents with high cyberbullying manifest offensive communication from mother and father, with attitude towards the transgression of norms, while low cyberbullying adolescents have open communication with the mother, positive attitude toward authority, school affiliation, teacher's help, family self-concept, academic self-concept and social self-concept.