Abstract

RESETT, Santiago; RODRIGUEZ, Lucas Marcelo  and  MORENO, José Eduardo. Psychometric properties of the Revised Olweus Bully/Bullied Questionnaire for Children in Spanish. Cienc. Psicol. [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.1, e2872.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 1688-4094.  https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v17i1.2872.

Bullying is an important risk factor for the mental health of children and adolescents, since victims’ present higher levels of emotional problems while those who carry it out show greater behavioural problems. Despite its relevance, few instruments exist for its measurement in school-age children. The present study sought to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire in a Spanish-speaking sample, with the particularity of being the first analysis of Spanish-speaking children. A quantitative study was carried out, implementing AFE, AFC, and Spearman's correlations. An intentional sample of 670 Argentinian children, male (48 %) and female (52 %), from 10 to 12 years old (mean age= 10.80; SD = 0.72) answered this test, such as the Friendship Quality Scale and the Kovacs Depression Inventory. The results indicated a factorial structure of two dimensions called victimization and bullying that coincided with those postulated by the author of the questionnaire. Cronbach's and Omega's alphas were satisfactory. The evidence of concurrent validity with the perception of the quality of friendship and depression was confirmed. The results indicated that this questionnaire presented adequate psychometric properties in its adaptation to Argentinian Spanish.

Keywords : bullying; children; psychometric properties; bully; bullied..

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