VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER
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VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER
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Bullying research and intervention in South America

2021 , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER , Pablo Madriaza , SÁNCHEZ SOTO, PAULINA ALEJANDRA

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Sibling and School Bullying Victimization and Its Relation With Children’s Subjective Well-Being in Indonesia: The Protective Role of Family and School Climate

2024 , Ihsana Sabriani Borualogo , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER , Pablo de Tezanos-Pinto

Studies on the influence of family and school climates on the relationships between sibling and school bullying victimization and children’s subjective well-being (SWB) in Indonesia are still scarce. The aims of this study are to investigate family and school climates as protective factors for children from the negative consequences of bullying by siblings or other children in school on SWB. The study used the third-wave data of the Children’s Worlds survey that was collected in Indonesia in October 2017. Participants of the study were children aged 10 and 12 years old ( N = 15,604; 49.8% girls, 50.2% boys, Mean age = 10.55; SD = 1.17). There are four questionnaires used in the study: five items measure bullying at home and at school, the Children’s Worlds Subjective Well-Being Scale, six items measure family climate, and four items measure school climate. Data were analyzed using R and the lavaan library for multilevel structural equation modeling, using full information maximum likelihood (FIML) for missing data and robust maximum likelihood (ML) estimation. Results showed that children who experienced bullying incidents, both at home by siblings and at school, predicted lower levels of SWB. School climate and family climate predicted higher levels of SWB. Results also showed that school bullying interacted significantly with school climate, while sibling bullying interacted significantly with family climate. Schools with students that reported more positive levels of family climate also reported higher levels of SWB. Students from public schools reported higher levels of SWB, which is unexpected.

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Examining the Relationship Among Bullying, School Climate and Adolescent Well-Being in Chile and South Africa: a Cross Cultural Comparison

2019 , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER , Shazly Savahl , Sabirah Adams , REYES REYES, FERNANDO TEDDY

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Life Satisfaction, Bullying, and Feeling Safe as a Protective Factor for Chilean and Brasilian Adolescents

2021 , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER , Andrés O. Muñoz-Najar Pacheco , CHUECAS JOFRE, MARIA JOSEFINA , Maria Angela Mattar Yunes , RODRIGUEZ RIVAS, MATIAS ENRIQUE , Paulina Guzmán

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Victims of Cyberbullying: Feeling Loneliness and Depression among Youth and Adult Chileans during the Pandemic

2022 , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER , Cristóbal Hernández , Rafael Miranda , Christopher P. Barlett , RODRIGUEZ RIVAS, MATIAS ENRIQUE

In Chile, during the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of cyberbullying victimization increased for adolescents and younger adults. Research has shown that cyber-victims—adolescents and young adults alike—are at greater risk for mental health problems such as depression as a result of this negative type of aggression. Yet, a paucity of research has examined the individual mechanisms germane to cyber-victim depression. We focused on loneliness for the current study. We hypothesized that cyber-victimization would be positively related to depressive symptoms through increased fears of loneliness and that this effect would differ between adolescents and younger adults. Thus, we examined a sample of 2370 participants from all main regions of Chile aged from 15 to 29 years. Moderated mediation results showed a negative effect of cyberbullying on depression, which was mediated by increased fears of being alone. The effect of frequency of cyberbullying on fear of loneliness was stronger for younger adults compared to adolescents. Our results suggest different mechanisms for both age groups, which can inform prevention programs and their specific activities.

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Differences in life satisfaction of adolescents by gender in Chile

2023 , REYES REYES, FERNANDO TEDDY , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER , ALFARO INZUNZA, JAIME ANDRES , SIRLOPU DÍAZ, DAVID , MELIPILLAN ARANEDA, EDMUNDO ROBERTO

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Psychometric Properties of the Community Sense Scale in the Classroom in a sample of Chilean students

2022 , Mariavictoria Benavente , FÁBREGA LACOA, JORGE ALBERTO , ALFARO INZUNZA, JAIME ANDRES , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER , CHUECAS JOFRE, MARIA JOSEFINA , Tamara Yaikin , CARRILLO BESTAGNO, GISELA MARTA OLIVIA

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Validación del Cuestionario de Maltrato entre Iguales por Abuso de Poder (MIAP) para escolares

2011 , Felipe Lecannelier , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER , Jorge Rodríguez , Marianela Hoffmann , FLORES, FERNANDA , Lorena Ascanio

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Well-being, school and age, from the understandings of Chilean children

2023 , ALFARO INZUNZA, JAIME ANDRES , CARRILLO BESTAGNO, GISELA MARTA OLIVIA , ASPILLAGA HESSE, MARIA CAROLINA , VILLARROEL GUTIERREZ, ALEJANDRA ELVIRA , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER

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La Percepción de Apego con la Escuela Como un Factor Protector Para Conductas Antisociales en Escolares Chilenos

2020 , VARELA TORRES, JORGE JAVIER , Javier Torres-Vallejos , GONZALEZ, CONSTANZA , Oriana García

La escuela puede ser considerada un espacio vital de desarrollo humano e incluso un factor protector para el desarrollo de conductas de riesgo en adolescentes. El presente estudio buscó examinar la percepción de un mayor apego escolar como un factor protector de la influencia de pares en conductas antisociales en el contexto chileno. Se usó una muestra estratificada con afijación igual de 815 escolares de 7° año básico a IV año medio provenientes de 15 establecimientos escolares seleccionados aleatoriamente de 5 diferentes NSE de la Región Metropolitana, 46,6% mujeres, con una edad promedio de 15,11 años DE = 1,78). Se utilizó una adaptación del instrumento Communities That Care Youth Survey, analizando el reporte de conductas antisociales en la escuela, relación con pares antisociales, consumo de drogas por parte de pares y apego con la escuela. Por medio de un análisis de regresión múltiple, se evidenció un efecto de interacción, en donde para aquellos estudiantes que perciben un mayor apego con la escuela, la influencia de los pares con conductas antisociales se ve moderada, en comparación con los estudiantes que tienen una percepción de bajo apego con la escuela. Este resultado provee evidencia sobre la importancia del apego con la escuela para prevenir conductas antisociales en adolescentes y para informar programas de prevención en contextos escolares.

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