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Bullying Victimization among Mexican Adolescents: Psychosocial Differences from an Ecological Approach

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  • Silvana Mabel Nuñez-Fadda

    (Department of Psychology, Coast University Center, University of Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico)

  • Remberto Castro-Castañeda

    (Department of Psychology, Coast University Center, University of Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico)

  • Esperanza Vargas-Jiménez

    (Department of Psychology, Coast University Center, University of Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico)

  • Gonzalo Musitu-Ochoa

    (Department of Education and Social Psychology, Pablo de Olavide University, 41013 Seville, Spain)

  • Juan Evaristo Callejas-Jerónimo

    (Department of Education and Social Psychology, Pablo de Olavide University, 41013 Seville, Spain)

Abstract

This transversal study over a random representative sample of 1687 Mexican students attending public and private secondary schools (54% girls, 12–17 years old, M = 13.65. DT = 1.14) aimed to analyze psychosocial differences between victims and non-victims of bullying from the bioecological model. It included individual variables (ontosystem), familiar, community, and scholar factors (microsystem), and gender (macrosystem) to perform a multivariate discriminant analysis and a logistic regression analysis. The discriminant analysis found that psychological distress, offensive communication with mother and father, and a positive attitude toward social norms transgression characterized the high victimization cluster. For the non-victims, the discriminant variables were community implication, positive attitude toward institutional authority, and open communication with the mother. These variables allowed for correctly predicting membership in 76% of the cases. Logistic regression analysis found that psychological distress, offensive communication with the father, and being a boy increased the probability of high victimization, while a positive attitude toward authority, open communication with the mother, and being a girl decrease this probability. These results highlight the importance of open and offensive communication between adolescents and their parents on psychological distress, attitude toward authority, community implication, and bullying victimization.

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  • Silvana Mabel Nuñez-Fadda & Remberto Castro-Castañeda & Esperanza Vargas-Jiménez & Gonzalo Musitu-Ochoa & Juan Evaristo Callejas-Jerónimo, 2020. "Bullying Victimization among Mexican Adolescents: Psychosocial Differences from an Ecological Approach," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(13), pages 1-16, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:13:p:4831-:d:380482
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    1. Ana Romero-Abrio & Belén Martínez-Ferrer & Daniel Musitu-Ferrer & Celeste León-Moreno & María Elena Villarreal-González & Juan Evaristo Callejas-Jerónimo, 2019. "Family Communication Problems, Psychosocial Adjustment and Cyberbullying," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-13, July.
    2. Teresa Isabel Jiménez & Estefanía Estévez & Coral M. Velilla & José Martín-Albo & María Luisa Martínez, 2019. "Family Communication and Verbal Child-to-Parent Violence among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Perceived Stress," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(22), pages 1-13, November.
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