Mejora de la convivencia en los centros de Educación Secundaria, a través de la Mediación entre Iguales

Bullying among peers in high school education is a problem affecting most of the Spanish schools. A good choice to solve this problem may be peer mediation programs, due to the different advantages they offer, most of them found in empirical research. Although the fostering of the student s autonomy, the improvement of school climate, and so on, are outstanding, few studies have included a scientific measure of the impact of these programs (Kmitta, 1999). Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyse the roles adopted in the conflict and the attitudes pro-victim of 323 students ranging from 12-15 years old, comparing two similar schools: one with a peer mediation program, and the other one, with no peer mediation program. Three questionnaires were administered to students in time 1 AG OR A DE SALU T I ISSN: 2443-9827. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/AgoraSalut.2015.1.35 pp. 429-439 430 AGORA DE SALUT. VOL. I. ISSN: 2443-9827. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/AgoraSalut.2015.1.35 pp. 429-439 (baseline), and time 2 (after program development). Results showed the influence of peer mediation programs in roles and attitudes pro-victim: a clear improvement of the roles in the school with peer mediation program, and a decrease of the attitudes provictim in the school without mediation program.