Los factores personales, sociales e institucionales que inciden en el acoso escolar en América Latina.

Abstract

Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves negative actions that have the purpose of harming and inconveniencing another person who has difficulty defending himself. Bullying among peers is part of the daily reality of educational institutions worldwide, causing serious consequences for victims, both for their mental and physical health. Several studies have identified that there are personal and environmental factors that influence and interact with each other and explain the fact that certain children are more likely to suffer different types of bullying, which can be: physical, verbal and relational. This study analyzes the personal, social and institutional factors that affect the probability that a student is a victim of different types of bullying in Latin America. For this, a logistic regression model is estimated, for each type of bullying, with data from the International Program for Student Assessment (PISA), year 2018. The results suggest that, in Latin America, relational bullying is the most frequent in schools and that students with a higher socioeconomic status are more likely to be victims of bullying, regardless of the type of school they attend.