Cyberbullying en Educación Primaria: Factores explicativos relacionados con los distintos roles de implicación

Cyberbullying has been identified as one of the most important problems among young people in the last decade. The scientific contributions to this phenomenon focus prominently on the study of factors associated with personality traits, mainly in the secondary stage. The aim of this study is to determine if together with certain personality variables exist school context variables that may explain involvement in cyberbullying as not involved, bystanders, victims, aggressors and aggressors victimized.
A number of 1278 schoolchildren (47.7% girls), of primary education aged 10-14 years, in Andalucía (M= 11.11; SD = 0.75) participated in the study. The statistical analysis indicates that both personal and interpersonal variables are influential in cyberbullying, specifically it noted gender, negative self-esteem, social adjustment between peers, and disruption and conflict. The results are discussed on the basis of the scientific contributions that explain the influence of these factors in the roles of involvement in cyberbullying.