| Summary: | Introduction: The bulling has adverse consequences in the life of aggressors and
attacked students. There is increasing interest in observing if it is present in university
environment.
Objective: To identify if there is bullying in the students of the psychology program of
a public university in the city of Santa Marta, in the north of Colombia.
Methods: The type of design used for this research was non-experimental, descriptive
and cross-sectional study, carried out in a sample of students of both genders enrolled
in second to ninth semester.
Results: 195 students participated, in which, the verbal maltreatment was present
more than other types of bullying, without differences by gender. Equally, it was
observed that in both genders, the dimension of the physical maltreatment was the less
present, followed by the psychological maltreatment. Equal presence of bullying was
observed in all the semesters.
Conclusions: Presence of bullying between psychology students of a Colombian
university was observed, being the most present dimension the verbal maltreatment.
Rev.cienc.biomed. 2014;4(2):281-286.
KEYWORDS
Bullying, Students, Aggression
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