Intimidation among coetaneans inside educational centres constitutes a problem in our educational reality, the participants are aggressors, victims and spectators. The objective of this research is to analyse, describe and establish the relationship between empathy and school maladjustment in participants of intimidation among coetaneans and to compare the variables of empathy, social maladjustment according to genre and school grade. The sample was represented by 820 students from four public high schools in Lima Metropolitan; the instruments used for this research were the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI,Davis 1980) in its Spanish versión (Mestre,V.,Frias,M.y Samper,P. 2004), a questionnaire of school maladjustment which was adapted from the Questionnaire of Intimidation  and Mistreatment among coetaneans Insebull (Avilés,J. y Elices,J. 2007) and the self-designation of the part...

Intimidation among coetaneans inside educational centres constitutes a problem in our educational reality, the participants are aggressors, victims and spectators. The objective of this research is to analyse, describe and establish the relationship between empathy and school maladjustment in participants of intimidation among coetaneans and to compare the variables of empathy, social maladjustment according to genre and school grade. The sample was represented by 820 students from four public high schools in Lima Metropolitan; the instruments used for this research were the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI,Davis 1980) in its Spanish versión (Mestre,V.,Frias,M.y Samper,P. 2004), a questionnaire of school maladjustment which was adapted from the Questionnaire of Intimidation  and Mistreatment among coetaneans Insebull (Avilés,J. y Elices,J. 2007) and the self-designation of the part...