Keywords
peer victimization
adolescence
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Abstract
The objective of this research was to establish the incidence of casual victimization and compare the psychopathological symptoms present in occasional victims and non-victims. A descriptive correlational cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 773 from a private school subsidized primary and secondary education in the city of Calama, of both sexes, between 11 and 18 years. Chi-square analysis and t tests for independent samples were performed. The results showed that occasional peer victimization affects 30% of young people and is stable across different ages evaluated. It was found that occasional victims exhibit more depressive, anxious and behavioral symptoms, and also have a lower prosocial behavior compared to the group not victimized. The association between victimization and casual psychopathological problems are discussed.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.