ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the first exploratory study on cyberbullying from the perspective of undergraduate students at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (UC). As in other countries, in Chile, the research on cyberbullying has focused mainly on behaviours at middle and high school levels. Notwithstanding the above, in the last 20 years, Chile has experienced a massive increase in access to universities, with a subsequent diversification of students. The study aims to understand the scope of cyberbullying among undergraduate students at UC, identify risk factors and describe the specific influence of university life on this phenomenon. One of the main objectives of this study was to discover the scope of cyberbullying experienced by UC undergraduate students. The cyberbullying experience extends beyond the victim-offender relationship, involving spectators or indirect participants. Findings indicate that 45.9% of the participants in this study had been exposed to cyberbullying in the last year, whether as a victim, witness, or perpetrator.
