Bullying is a violent behavior that involves unequal balance of power between the bully who is considered superior and the victim who is considered inferior. There are three types of bullying: Verbal bullying: teasing, calling names, Cyber bullying: hacking someone’s social website page and posting negative things about someone and Physical bullying: hitting, spitting, punching someone. Based on my research, I have discovered that verbal bullying is the common type that occurs the most in high school with teenagers at some point. Causes of verbal bullying could be based on the victim’s physical appearances, gender, social status, culture, race, ethnicity and much more.
“Stupid, ugly, short, tall, coward,” are among few of the words that are labeled to one’s individuality that would really offend their feeling. Even words are very powerful and hurtful. Verbal bullying means calling names and mocking someone and even giving verbal threats to others (Bauman, Sheri & Del Rio, Adrienne, 2006, p. 219). Even though it does not involve someone getting physically hurt, but it sure does leave marks of labels in that person’s characteristics. When victims of verbal bullying take those words in heart, it can lead to serious consequences. What can be some of the common consequences of verbal bullying of the victims?
For instance, one of the common consequences of verbal bullying is poor academic result. Victimized students’ results to poor academic because since they are victims of verbal bullying, they happen to show less interest in school that makes them not participate in class and even go to school. (Cornell, Gregory, Huang, & Fan, p.138). It’s certain that at some period, teenagers who go to school often become victims of verbal...
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Bullying has become a major problem facing the United States today. The American Psychological Association reports that roughly 40% to 80% of children are involved in bullying on some level during their time in school. (APA, 2014) The magnitude of the problem can be observed in the statistics. In the United States, a total of 4,080,879 children between the ages of five and 18 have been the victims of bullying compared to 3,892,199 who have reported that they have engaged in bullying someone else. Additionally, 851,755 said that they have been both the victim and the bully. That's a whopping 8,824,833 people in the United States that have been involved in bullying behavior on one level or another. (High, B., 2000 Census)
School shootings and suicides result from continuous bullying. As a result, after time some side effects of...
Bullying has been around for decades and yet it is still a reoccurring problem, and it is only getting worse. The National Center for Educational Statistics, in 2009, said nearly 1 in 3 students between the ages of 12 and 18 reported being bullied in school. Eight years earlier, only 14 percent of that population said they had experienced bullying(Ollove,2014). There are two types of bullying the direct form and indirect form, in the direct form the victim receives physical harm example kicking pushing shoving. In the indirect form the victim receives emotional or mental harm by name-calling, rejection, gossip, threats, or insults(Green,2007). It doesn’t matter which way the victim was bullied it still causes
Bullying is a growing concern in a society where status and exercising power over another human being are increasingly important in developing one’s social circles. Dan Olweus (Norwegian researcher and founder of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program) defines it as an “aggressive behaviour that is intentional and that involves an imbalance of power. Most often, it is repeated over time” (Violencepreventionworks.org). School victimization is an especially delicate matter that has only really been in the public eye for the past half century, as more and more researchers and psychologists pointed out its short- and long-term negative effects on targeted individuals. It has since been widely investigated and numerous programs have been developed in an effort to address and prevent the many forms of bullying that exist today. The negative effects of such an abusive behaviour are various and can greatly differ from individual to individual. However, there are three main consequences that can be associated with school bullying, which are: school avoidance, depression/anxiety and even suicidal attempts.
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In a CNN study by Chuck Hadad he states “That bullying is pervasive even though the schools have anti-bullying programs from kindergarten through 12th grade, assemblies throughout the year, and a peer-to-peer program where older students talk to younger students about the dangers of bullying” (Hadad). Robert Faris, a sociologist found that bullies and victims are generally the same person. Whe...
Everyone has been bullied or encountered someone being bullied at some point of their life. Whether it would be physically or verbally both can be exceedingly traumatizing and can have a long-term psychological influence on children’s development. Majority people may define bullying in a more physical term; nevertheless that’s not always the case. The act of bullying can occur in several ways and in reality affect the individual in the same way. Bullying is generally defined as repeated, negative, and harmful actions focused at target throughout a course of time, exhibiting a sense of power difference between the bully and the victim (Olweus, 1993; Limber & Mihalic, 1999 as cited from Douglas J. Boyle, 2005). A survey was conducted in the United States estimating that over six million children, about 30% in grade six through ten have experienced frequent bullying in a school environment (Nansel, 2001 as cited from Douglas J. Boyle, 2005). Many people might debate that bullying is something that every child goes through and is simply a part of growing up, although there are several damaging consequences that happens to the child’s brain. Bullying causes the child to feel upset, isolated, frightened, anxious, and depressed. They feel like they reason they are being picked on is because there is something wrong with them and may even lose their confidence feel unsafe going to school (Frenette, 2013 as cited from Douglas J. Boyle, 2005) Anthropologically, sociologically, or psychologically, bullying can be analyzed through different perspectives and several questions can be asked based on the topic:
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Verbal bullying occurs when someone uses language to gain power over his or her peers, which happens with insulting classmates, teasing them because o...
...ctim. These characteristics include having few friends, low self-confidence, low self-esteem and blaming themselves for being bullied (Vlachou et al., 2011). Such predictors as psychological symptoms, behavioural changes, and school problems can be used by educators to indicate if bullying is occurring, and whether or not the predictors indicate the bully or the victim. Once teachers can predict who the bully is and who the victim is, they can help promote the appropriate skills to help children regulate their feelings to avoid the act of bullying and aggression (Vanderbilt & Augustyn, 2010). It is important to note the different aspects of bullying on young children and how bullying affects them during the period when the bullying is occurring as well as later in life. These different aspects impact the social-emotional development in both the bully and the victim.
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An estimated amount of 160,000 students across the United States misses school each day due to being a victim of bullying. From a present study, 29% of students involved in bullying, 14% of the children were said to be victims, 7% were bullies, and 8% were bullies and victims. The worst type of social behavior stems from bullying, and leads to complications in a student’s future. Bullying is a way of expressing aggressive behavior that is intended, and continues that sometimes leads to physical or mental injuries. Those who are victims of bullying, lack self-esteem, and become easily depressed by small objects. There are four common types of bullying: verbal, physical, relational aggression, and
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words feel more like daggers. This simply says that mere name-calling does give rise to a cause of action. It is not necessary to be physically harmed in order to suffer lasting harm. Bullying is usually the intimidation, the process of intimidating or mistreating someone weaker or in a more vulnerable state. This could be teasing or taunting a class mate because they are in some way different. But what happens when our school yard bully becomes our Facebook harasser? This is definitely nothing new to society but thanks to the internet, instant messaging programs, E-mails, text messaging and social networks teens are now being bullied online. Some may feel that bullying is a part of growing up, they may assume that it builds character but in many cases this form of harassment has become a huge problem and the results have become fatal. The experience of being bullied can cause lasting damages to an individual. Victims of cyber bullying may endure and experience long-term emotional damage, anger, low self-esteem, depression, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.