Proceedings of The International Academic Conference on Education
Year: 2019
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/iaceducation.2019.11.669
Creation of a Mobile App for the Promotion of Social Skills as a Way out of Cyberbullyng Situations for Intercultural Reasons
Christian Fernández-Leyva, José Manuel Ortiz-Marcos and María Tomé-Fernández
ABSTRACT:
In this study, the cyberbullying situation promoted by the intolerance towards cultural and religious diversity suffered by both native and immigrant students, at present, of the different centers of Compulsory Secondary Education is analyzed. Therefore, the objective of this work is to adapt two instruments to evaluate the opinions of students regarding the content of what this mobile App should contain. To complete these two questionnaires, 284 students were taken as a sample to develop the research, all of Compulsory Secondary Institutes and University of Spain. These questionnaires consist of two “yes” or “no” answer options structured in 29 items and 18 items, which were extracted from relevant scales on the subject to be investigated. Once the data of the participants has been obtained and the issues that they have considered most relevant to include in the mobile application have been selected, the development and design of a new mobile App creation will be carried out, with the aim of helping or guiding People who suffer these types of intentional attacks.
Keywords: Cultural diversity; Education; Intolerance; Opinions, Questionnaires.