School bullying: A contextual analysis in Venezuelan secondary schools from perpetrators’ and victims’ reports

Abstract

Bullying is a growing worry in Venezuelan schools, which is analyzed from an ecological approach addressing conceptual and methodological peculiarities inherent to the context. In order to provide a systematic database for the small number of research on bullying in the country, we present the outcomes of an exploratory study to identify this behavior in adolescents aged 11-19 years in four secondary schools in Merida city. he frequency of victimization and perpetration is discriminated in relation to the gender and the type of school (private vs. public), in order to consider the socioeconomic status. he outcomes conirm bullying in the sample studied, particularly in verbal behaviors (joking and nicknames) and nonverbal behaviors (rumors and indiference) and higher incidents in public schools. KEY WORDS. Bullying, Victim, Perpetrator, Ecologic Approach, Secondary Schools. doi: 10.21703/rexe.20173129412