Estilo comunicacional en familias con hijos agresores en situaciones de acoso escolar

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out in two phases, a first one of quantitative cut and the second qualitative, of exploratory-descriptive section, whose objective was to describe the communication style in families with aggressive children in situations of school bullying; The questionnaire on intimidation and abuse among peers in Cuenca City Schools, validated by Shephard, Ordóñez and Rodríguez (2010), was applied to 54 students of the fifth and sixth year of general basic education of the Educational Unit " La Salle "in the city of Azogues, which allowed the identification of the number of aggressor students. Later, a semi - structured interview called" The communicational style in families with aggressive children in situations of bullying "was prepared by Ordoñez and Crespo (2014), 8 parents and / or legal representatives of identified child aggressors, which allowed the identification of the family typology and the determination of the communication style. The results show 23 aggressor children and 31 possible child victims. The type of family to which the aggressor child belongs is nuclear, with the predominant communicational styles being the distractor followed by the placater.