Victimización y agresión en adolescentes de escuelas públicas y privadas de cuatro ciudades de la Argentina

Abstract

2.192 teenagers evaluated from secondary schools in Autonomous City of BuenosAires, Paraná City, Rawson City and Viedma City. An 11 % were victim; 7 %, aggressorand 4 %, both. More males were aggressors and victim-aggressors. Youngerstudents were more victimized and there was more harassment in private schools.Most common ways of bullying were verbal ones. Most victims were harassed by astudent or a group of two or three males from their own class, in the playground orin the classroom, for a month in average and most of them would not tell anybodythat they were being harassed.