Citation

Rodríguez-Hidalgo AJ, Calmaestra J, Casas JA, Ortega-Ruiz R. Front. Psychol. 2019; 10: e46.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Frontiers Research Foundation)

DOI

10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00046

PMID

30774605

PMCID

PMC6367499

Abstract

The present study contrasts personal bullying with ethnic-cultural bullying. A representative pluricultural sample from a Spanish adolescent population of Secondary Education took part in the study (N = 27369). The sample filled in the EBIPQ to measure personal bullying. Additionally, they filled in an adaptation of this questionnaire to measure the ethnic-cultural bullying: the EBIPQ-ECD. The EBIPQ-ECD validation showed optimal psychometric properties and a bidimensional structure: ethnic-cultural victimization and ethnic-cultural aggression. The same roles of participation in personal bullying -aggressor, victim, bully/victim, non-involved- were observed in ethnic-cultural bullying, but they did not coincide with each other in a considerable part. Therefore, we concluded that ethnic-cultural bullying is a different phenomenon from personal bullying, with the possibility of certain dynamism existing between both. To prevent and mitigate ethnic-cultural bullying, educational inferences are proposed. We also recommend the use of the EBIPQ-ECD as a tool to evaluate and detect ethnic-cultural aggressions and victimization.

Language: en

Keywords

bullying; discrimination; ethnic-cultural; peer victimization; questionnaire; racism; validation