“Estudio comparativo del nivel de acoso escolar en estudiantes de una institucion pùblica y privada”

Abstract

The main objective of this research work was to compare the level of bullying in students of the private educational institution “La Inmaculada” belonging to the Ambato city, between students of the public educational institution “Pedro Fermín Cevallos” in the Cevallos city, through abuse scales physical and psychological, comprised in two representative instances such as the global index and intensity of harassment, and the levels of severity of clinical damage that harassed students possess, this cynical damage is evaluated by means of a set of symptoms, anxiety, stress post-traumatic, dysthymia, decreased self-esteem, flashbacks, somatizations, negative self-image and self-deprecation, providing a broad view on the current problem of school bullying in educational contexts, in this way the focus of the study is a quantitative design of comparative type. 160 students between the ages of 14 and 16 years of age who were attending tenth year of basic education were evaluated through the sociodemographic-socio-economic record and the IVE test of bullying and school violence of Iñaki and Piñuel to detect the level of bullying, its modalities such as physical, verbal and psychological abuse and the clinical scales that reveal the existence of psychological damage. The results of the research showed the presence of peer bullying in both institutions, however, it is in the public institution where more of these behaviors were recorded.