Citation

Valdés Cuervo AA, Tánori Quintana J, Carlos Martínez EA, Wendlandt Amezaga TR. Int. J. Psychol. Res. (Medellin) 2018; 11(1): 50-57.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Facultad de Psicologia)

DOI

10.21500/20112084.1777

PMID

32612770 PMCID

Abstract

The effects of the presence of challenging behavior problems, parental conflict and violence in the community were determined by the probability of occurrence of bullying behaviors in elementary students. 664 students participated in the study, of whom 80 (12.04%) were identified as aggressors. 80 students with no reports of attacks were later selected randomly for comparison. Using logistic regression, it was found that the variables studied manifest significant differences between the student groups with and without aggressive behavior toward peers (R2 =.39). Challenging behavior (OR = 7.83), parental conflict (OR = 3.77) and Community Violence (OR = 5.36) increase the probability of belonging to the group of aggressors. We conclude that it is necessary to analyze the bullying from an ecological framework that considers variables located in the contexts in which individuals interact.

Language: en

Keywords

Family; bullying; school violence; neighborhood