Vol. 26.Issue. 1. January - June 2021 | Revista de Psicodidáctica (English Edition)

ISSN: 2530-3805

Revista de Psicodidáctica is a six-monthly journal for teachers and researchers, published since 1996, founded and directed by Alfredo Goñi Grandmontagne for twelve years. The journal was first published on-line in 2010.
This is a subscription journal, as such that the authors do not pay for the evaluation or its publication. After the final acceptance of the article, the authors may send, within a period of one month, a version of the article in a different language from the initial one; in Spanish, Basque, or other language, if it has initially been submitted in English. And if the article was submitted in Spanish, the second version should be in English.
Over recent years it has gradually increased its impact factor in various databases, both in the Spanish and in the international scopes. The Journal publishes scientific works conducted in accordance with the strictest scientific principles which contribute to the advance of scientific knowledge in the field in which psychology and didactics meet and overlap. In particular, it focuses on the meeting of educational psychology and the didactics of different subjects (language, literature, mathematics, social science, experimental science, physical expression, musical expression and plastic expression, etc.).

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We have a pleasure to submit our article titled “School climate policy and its relations with social and emotional competencies, bullying and cyberbullying in secondary education” to the Revista de Psicodidáctica.
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Some school policies are designed to promote a positive school climate, but little is known about their effectiveness. Little is still known about the role of school policy in improving school climate. It still needs to be discovered if school policy documents may improve social and emotional competencies and decrease bullying and cyberbullying. In this study, the effectiveness of school climate policy documents was studied controlling for the presence of minority groups, as a vulnerable group regarding their possible involvement bullying and cyberbullying
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School climate policy documents varied greatly in quantity and quality of accomplishment in each compulsory criterion among the different schools.
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This research study also describes the relationship between the quality of school climate policy documents and social and emotional competencies in students. Another contribution of this research is the study of the relation of bullying and cyberbullying to the quality of the school climate policy document, as a contextual factor, and social and emotional competencies, as an individual factor.
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According to the evidence from this study, promoting a positive school climate from the school climate policy document is worthy, as bullying perpetration could be reduced. The findings of this study have implications in school policy and educational reforms.
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Prof. Vicente J. Llorent, Prof. David P. Farrington and Prof. Izabela Zych