ABSTRACT

Background: Felipe Resende et al. 2017 said that in a survey from 2011 to more than 300,000 students from 48 developing countries, more than 50% of students reported that they experienced bullying at school and 33% reported experiencing weekly bullying.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to describe the incidence of bullying in adolescents in Yogyakarta.

Method: This type of research is descriptive-analytic research with a cross-sectional design. The sampling technique used by the proportion sampling method.

Results: The results showed that the highest incidence of bullying in Yogyakarta adolescents was in the medium category, with 41 people (58.6%) out of 70 people.

Conclusion: To reduce the highest bullying in adolescents, there is a need to supervise the school students.

Keywords: Bullying, adolescent, Yogyakarta