INCIDENCIA DEL ACOSO ESCOLAR EN LAS RELACIONES INTERPERSONALES ENTRE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE EDUCACIÓN PRE-MEDIA

The present investigation was carried out in a public school located in the district of La Chorrera, corregimiento of Guadalupe Panama, and another of a private school, located in the district of Panama, corregimiento of Tocumen.

Abstract

• Fecha de recepción, junio 2018
• Fecha de aprobación, julio 2018
• Pages: 6

Students from the early secondary level of both schools participated in the event. The purpose of the research was to establish the incidence of bullying in interpersonal relationships among early secondary students.

In order to complete this research, it was necessary to identify the different forms of bullying that occur among student; then determined which were their interpersonal relationships conditions, and finally described the actions taken by teachers to strengthen interpersonal relationships among students.

 The research work is conducted using a mixed methodological approach; consisting on a non-experimental study of transversal type with a descriptive-correlational design, where the population was formed by 885 students, from which a sample of 318 students corresponding to the early secondary level was taken.

The results were: 42.2% of the students are victims of verbal harassment, 15.4% are victims of psychological harassment and 14.1% are victims of physical harassment.  In conclusion, bullying affects interpersonal relationships among early secondary students in the central and western Panama Education Region.