Abstract

CASTRO CASTANEDA, Remberto; VARGAS JIMENEZ, Esperanza; MORA SANTOS, Adriana Igsabel  and  AGULLO-TOMAS, Esteban. Variables that discriminate the profile of cyberbullying in mexican adolescents. Rev. de psicol. y cienc. del comport. de la Unidad Académica de Cienc. Juríd. y Sociales [online]. 2019, vol.10, n.2, pp.30-43.  Epub Sep 13, 2021. ISSN 2007-1833.  https://doi.org/10.29059/rpcc.20191126-90.

The adolescent interacts in a real and virtual world with risks and benefits. This study aims to analyze variables that discriminate high and low cyberbullying in adolescents. Self-concept scales (individual) were applied, open and offensive communication 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 belonging to the public and private institutions. A cluster and discriminant analysis was performed.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.

Keywords : Cyberbullying; family communication; school climate; self-concept; attitude towards authority.