Abstract:
El estudio tuvo como objetivos analizar variables personales y familiares de los ciberagresores, e identificar aquellas que predicen ciberagresión. La
muestra consistió en 3.026 adolescentes de 12 a 18 años del País Vasco. Con un diseño predictivo, se administraron 8 instrumentos de evaluación.
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Prevention of cyberbullying: Personal and family predictive variables of cyber-aggression. The objective of the study was to analyze the personal
and family variables of cyberbullies, and identify variables that predict cyber-aggression. The sample comprised 3,026 participants from the Basque
country, aged 12 to 18 years. Using a predictive design, 8 assessment instruments were administered. The results of the analysis of variance and
post-hoc analysis confirm that, compared to those who had not performed any cyberbullying behavior (non-cyberbullies) in the last year, cyberbullies
(severe and occasional) had been significantly more frequently bully victims and bullies, as well as cybervictims, and they showed less empathy,
friendliness, responsibility, and self-esteem, and higher neuroticism, antisocial behavior, and school problems. Moreover, their parents had a low level
of acceptance/involvement in their children’s lives. Severe cyberbullies (compared to occasional cyberbullies and non-cyberbullies) had significantly
less emotion regulation and social adaptation, and more problems (shyness-withdrawal, psychopathological and psychosomatic symptoms), and
their parents used high levels of coercion/imposition, and discipline. Linear regression analysis identified having been a cybervictim as a predictor
variable of cyberbullying perpetration in both sexes. In addition, in boys, low empathy, low emotional regulation, high openness and extraversion,
as well as having a mother with a high level of coercion/discipline predicted cyber-aggression. In girls, having been a bully and having suffered few
bullying behaviors were predictors of the probability of becoming a cyberbully. The study identifies relevant personal and family variables to establish
strategies to prevent and reduce cyberbullying from the school and family.
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