Acoso escolar y autoestima en alumnos de segundo de secundaria de una institución educativa del distrito de Lurin

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the dimensions of bullying and self-esteem. The research design was descriptive correlational. The study populationconsisted of 139 second year secondary school students from a school in the district of Lurín. A non-probabilistic, intentional sample consisting of 98 participants was used. The instrumentsused were Bullying and School Violence test by Oñate and Piñuel, validated by Aranda in 2010 (Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.93) and Coopersmith’s Self-Esteem Inventory, validated by Mesías in2017 (Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.799), both in Peru. The results show a correlation between the global bullying index and general self-esteem with a Spearman correlation coefficient (-0.485**).It is concluded that there is a significant relationship between both variables.