Prevalence and patterns of traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing among college population in Spain

BMC Public Health

Research Article

Aurelio Luna Maldonado¹  Oriali Rodriges Frantzisko¹  Javier Navarro-Zaragoza¹  María Falcón Romero¹  Aurelio Luna Ruiz-Cabello¹  Francisco Caravaca Sánchez¹ 

[1] Department of Social and Health Sciences, University of Murcia, 30100 Campus of Espinardo, Murcia, Spain;

关键词: College Student;    Sociodemographic Characteristic;    Family Conflict;    Foreign Student;    College Population;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-016-2857-8

 received in 2015-06-23, accepted in 2016-02-11,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundTraditional bullying victimization and the growing number of cyber-teasing victims during the last decade is a major public health concern. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between students’ experiences of traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing and the sociodemographic characteristics of a sample composed of college students in Spain.MethodsIn the fall of 2014, 543 sixth-grade students from southeast Spain completed an anonymous survey on their experience of both kinds of to ascertain any relationship with sociodemographic characteristics, including gender, nationality, economic problems, family conflicts and alcohol and cannabis use.ResultsA total of 62.2 % of the students reported to having suffered traditional bullying victimization and 52.7 % reported that they had been subject to cyber-teasing. 40.7 % of participants had been victims of traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing in the past 12 months. Most (65.7 %) of the victims were at the same time cyber-teasing victims; 77.6 % of cyber-teasing victims were also victimized in a different manner. Traditional bullying victimization was higher among boys than among girls, while female students were more likely to have been subjected to cyber-teasing than male students. The characteristics that most heavily influenced suffering traditional bullying victimization were economic problems, family conflicts and cannabis use.ConclusionsOur findings confirm overlapping results in the risk factors that influence suffering both traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing: there was a strong influence of certain sociodemographic and individual characteristics of the college population, suggesting that specific policies are necessary to improve college students’ environment in Spain.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Caravaca Sánchez et al. 2016