VIOLENCE USING SOCIAL NETWORKS IN LAW STUDENTS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARAGUAY

Abstract

The objective of the research was to analyze the phenomenon of violence through social networks in students of the Law course at the American University, during the Covid-19 pandemic. The approach was quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional design. The violence variable was projected with three dimensions that were: type, frequency and manifestations of violence through social networks.

The population was made up of the total number of students in the Law course at the university, totaling 233, and from them a probabilistic sample of 215 was taken through the simple random method. Surveys were conducted using a questionnaire with closed questions and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the results. It was observed that the difference is 14.2% between the students who were subjected to violence through the networks and those who were not. It was concluded that the frequency of violence was exercised between three or more occasions in both men and women; the most recurrent manifestations of violence focused on aggressive comments towards the person or the body of the people, and the main types of violence were verbal and psychological.