Abstract

BELTRON VILLAMIZAR, Yolima Ivonne; TORRADO DUARTE, Omar Elías  and  VARGAS BELTRON, Carlos Guillermo. Prevalence of School Bullying at State Schools in Bucaramanga city, Colombia. sophia [online]. 2016, vol.12, n.2, pp.173-186. ISSN 1794-8932.  https://doi.org/10.18634/sophiaj.12v.2i.233.

The objective of this article is to determine the prevalence of bullying present in public educational institutions in Bucaramanga - Colombia through a cross- cutting quantitative research and a non- experimental design. The sample consisted of 1776 students ( 48.9 % female and 50.5 % male ) belonging to grades 4 to 11th . The study was conducted in three phases: characterization of public educational institutions Bucaramanga ; random selection of school groups on which the information was collected ; data collection and analysis . The results show a 8.1% prevalence of victimization in the case of bullying committed personally and 5% to bullying conducted through virtual means.

Keywords : Organization change; secondary education; education policy; government policy; education sciences.

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