4XBULLYING. DESIGN AND APPLICATION OF A QUESTIONNAIRE FOR 4TH YEAR STUDENTS

Abstract

Background: Study that arises as a consequence of the project SCIENCE-IES (UJA) directed by the Research Group HUM-653 and developed by a group of students of 4th year of Secondary Education of SAFA of Úbeda. The aim is to bring them closer to wrestling, a non-aggressive Olympic sport little known by students, as well as to initiate them into research on school violence (bullying).

Objective: To introduce Secondary Education students to the methodology of qualitative research, designing and applying a questionnaire to measure school violence and the environment in which it occurs.

Material and Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional study in which 185 students from the SAFA in Úbeda aged between 12 and 17 (ESO and Bachillerato) participated. The instrument used was the 4XBULLYING questionnaire, prepared ad-hoc by the group of students mentioned, with the help of the researchers who signed this manuscript. The questionnaire, with four dimensions (face-to-face and virtual aggressor, face-to-face and virtual victim), was disseminated through Google Forms among the students of the SAFA.

Discussion and Conclusions: In general, it is observed that cases of face-to-face bullying are higher than those of virtual bullying, although it seems frequent that these situations of school bullying start with face-to-face demonstrations and later produce the bullying on the net. The aggressors that act face to face opt for the invention of nicknames over the physical one of their victims, while those that do it through the networks prefer to spread personal information without previous consent of the affected person. Finally, the participating students emphasize having acquired knowledge about wrestling and the development of an elementary research instrument such as the 4XBULLYING questionnaire.