Inteligencia emocional y acoso escolar en ESO

Abstract

School violence is a very current problem and very much talked about in all the media. The objective of our study is threefold: to analyze and evaluate school bullying and emotional intelligence in ESO students, to study whether there are differences in school bullying according to the different demographic variables and lastly to detect possible relationships between School Harassment and Emotional Intelligence This study was carried out on a sample composed of 960 students in Compulsory Secondary Education to whom was administered a School Harassment Questionnaire and Mayer & Salovey’s Mayer-Salovey- Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test. The results indicate that the most frequent bullying behaviours are speaking ill of others, laughing at others and insulting them; that men are more likely to engage in bullying and be victims of bullying than the women; that there are not many differences in levels of bullying between courses and that there is greater incidence of bullying, both inflicted and suffered among repeat students. The results also confirm that it is possible to use the Emotional Intelligence Test in Secondary Education, that there are differences between men and women, above on emotional perception, facilitation and understanding. However, these differences are only in handling emotions and there are no differences in emotional intelligence between genders associated with the course. there are differences associated with repetition in primary/secondary school regarding emotional understanding, this being average in emotional handling and a very slight difference in emotional perception and facilitating. Finally, the results also indicate that there is some emotional differentiation between bullies and non-bullies but only differences between perpetrators and victims.