Estrés infantil y estrategias de afrontamiento en niños víctimas de violencia escolar

Abstract

This research is carried out with the objective of describing child stress and the strategies used by children victims of school violence, so it is a descriptive study, which was implemented with a population of 102 boys and girls of 8 12 years of the Mario Cobo Barona Educational Unit of the province of Tungurahua, to which the Test of Bullying was applied as a filter test as a selection criterion.The sample studied was a total of 54 children, 26 of them male and 28 female, to whom the Childhood Daily Stress Scale was applied to know the level of stress they suffer, and with the purpose of investigating the strategies most used by children in the face of the stressful event, the Scale of Situational Coping Strategies was used. Based on the data obtained by the different tests, it was concluded that more than half of the sample studied suffer from bullying. When assessing childhood stress, it was observed that students show high levels of school stress, also expressing themselves in the social area at moderate levels. As for the coping strategies most used in childhood, the manifestation of aggressive behaviors stands out.