Impact of Child Grooming on students in the educational units of the city of Calceta

Abstract

Child Grooming is defined as the harassment of a minor by an adult for sexual purposes, generally through social networks. The purpose of this research was to determine the risk level of Child Grooming in first, second and third year high school students of the Educational Unit October 13 of the city of Calceta during the school year 2020 - 2021. For the elaboration of the survey asked a total of 14 questions related to this type of harassment. The methodology that was applied was in three phases: 1. Classification of the questions by high, medium and low risk level; 2. Statistical analysis where stratified sampling was used with a total of 185 students, out of a population of 580; and finally the data analysis was carried out. The results show that the rate of students who could suffer from cyberbullying is relatively high according to the survey carried out, since through it it was analyzed that there are a large number of students who have conversations with strangers through social networks and that also a high percentage of these falls on the female sex. It is concluded that the use of social networks without the proper control of an adult, makes young people involuntarily establish friendship with people who create false profiles and share photos until the offender achieves his goal.

Keywords: Cyberbullying, risk, social networks, false profiles, harassment, sexual.