Impact of Cyberbullying in a Compulsory Secondary Education School

ABSTRACT In this paper, we focus on describing the concept of cyberbullying and identifying the kind and impact of cyber‐victimization in terms of the gender and school stage in a sample of 173 students of the first and second course of Compulsory Secondary Education (students between 12 and 16 years old) of Colegio Sagrado Corazon from Málaga. To do so, we have used a Cyberbullying form classifying the assaults in several types: verbal‐written, visual, identity fraud and exclusion. The results have shown higher levels of cyber‐victimization in the male gender and in the last school stages. The most common assaults are verbal‐written.