Bullying and self-esteem in students of the second year of secondary school from the district of 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 population
consisted 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 instruments
used 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 in
2017 (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.