Percepción del Bullying en estudiantes de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Santo Tomás

Abstract

In the research developed, Bullying is part of a growing phenomenon, which implies behaviors of physical or psychological abuse among students, through ridicule, rumors, segregation and contempt, these practices affect coexistence especially in educational institutions, which, influences different spheres of life, such as absenteeism, low self-esteem, episodes of anxiety, depression, difficulty integrating, less active participation and, consequently, decreased academic performance. In order to understand the perception around the Bullying of a student for each learning cycle of the Faculty of Psychology at the Santo Tomás University, the interpretive paradigm was chosen with the phenomenological method, which allows understanding and collecting them. The collection of information was made from semi-structured interviews with three students from the Faculty of Psychology of the Santo Tomás University, then proceeded to organize and analyze through the Atlas.ti program from the categories Bullying and institutional and legal, making network trees, frequency tables and Sankey diagrams. It was concluded that bullying is a phenomenon that the participants recognize as relevant, which, for them, is present in daily life, however, the process of prevention, detection and attention in cases of witnessing it was not evidenced. They considered that it is usually normalized and made invisible in the face of few or no actions by the different actors of the institutional community, for which they express the importance of institutional co-responsibility to mitigate the phenomenon.