Relationships between school violence and multidimensional self-concept: teenagers from the Obligatory Secondary Education.

Abstract

The aim of this study is to understand the differences in self-concept from a multidimensional perspective among adolescents who have been participants or observers of acts of intimidation at school (aggressive, victims, aggressive-victims and observers). To this end, we assess a sample of 345 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18. The results obtained indicate that in terms of self-perception, attackers showed higher scores in the emotional and social dimensions, victims scored higher in the family and academic dimensions, and aggressive-victims showed the lowest scores in the family and academic dimensions, and were slightly higher than victims in the social and emotional dimensions. Observers scored highest in self-perception in the family and academic dimensions, and were slightly lower than attackers in the emotional and social dimensions.

Key words: School violence, self-concept, adolescents.