What are the Affects of Bullying in Public Schools?
What is Bullying? Bullying is repeated, aggressive behavior by one or more people, and it harms others physically and/or emotionally. Bullies are taught and not born. There are seven different types of bullies; The Confident Bully feels good about himself, he also has a big ego and shows no empathy towards his targets. Social Bully can pretend to be caring and compassionate about his victim when needed to cover up his actions as a bully. (The BRIM Software). A Social Bully also uses verbal taunts, rumor, and gossip as the weapons of choice for their victims. Fully Armored Bully is emotionless and cold hearted and his feelings are buried deep inside so that he can’t identify them. Hyperactive Bullies suffer from learning disabilities, struggles in school, and cannot accurately process his classmates’ behavior. Bullied Bullies (the Bully Victim) is a target of bullies and a bully himself. The Bunch of Bullies are groups of ‘nice’ kids bullying another student. Gang of Bullies are a gang of allies, not friends, working together for domination over a particular area or ‘turf’. They also dedicate themselves to their group and they do not think about their consequences of their actions.
Studies show that in North Carolina, 5% of the children were exclusively bullies, 21% were exclusively victims, and 4.5% played both roles. (Walton) Also, 25% of the participants say they had suicidal thoughts as young adults and 38% of them had panic disorders. If a child is constantly around this type of behavior, 90% chances are, that child will become a bully in the future. In a recent study, students from different Dutch elementary schools participated in a questionnaire on their bullying behavior....
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What is bullying? Bullying is behavior that is hurtful, whether physically or mentally and is ongoing. I know that cyber bullying is huge right now, but what about good old fashioned bullying? The kind where someone is mean to another, whether at school, on the playground, or work. I am specifically going to talk about kids in school being bullied and ways of coping.
School shootings and suicides result from continuous bullying. As a result, after time some side effects of...
"The Jed Foundation - How Bullying Impacts Mental Health." The Jed Foundation - How Bullying Impacts Mental Health. The Jed Foundation, 1 May 2012. Web. 05 Mar. 2014.
Findings of this study did not show significant secondary outcome measures of bullying versus quality of life. Although quality of life was measured with a participant ever being...
(example) A new study published in Psychological Science on August 19 shows that being bullied as a youth was linked to more struggles to hold a regular job, more health problems and poor social relationships when the victim became an adult.researchers looked at 1,420 children between the ages of nine to 16, and followed up with them when they were 24 through 26 years old. Each participant was surveyed four to six times during the study. Kids need to stand up for themselves and not let it get to them.
As according to a study of 300 men, it was found that both being bullies and bullying victims were linked to negative outcomes such as “more financial difficulties, feeling unfair treatment and less optimism towards life” which also affected their beings physically (Jennings 1.) It has to be stated that mental illness can affect the body and risk of physical health as a strained mind also strains the body (Jennings 1.) Bullying and abuse, which can cause trauma, can have lethal effects on a person as they can cause cardiovascular problems (Jennings 1.) Furthermore, a lot of people from the old study could not participate as they were either dead or incarcerated (Jennings 2.) All of these studies show that childhood years can still affect people later in their lives and even in deadly ways.
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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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:
Bullying is a major problem and needs to be prevented. A bully is defined as aggressive behavior or to harm a person repeatedly overtime. School bullying can start anytime from elementary to high school. Over 5.7 teens in the United States are involved in school bullying(about.com). Boys tend to be more physically bullied as girls are more prone to being bullied verbally. According to the National Conference of State Legislature, boys who are often bullied can be five times as likely to be more or severely depressed and four times more likely to be suicidal. Girls are three times more likely to be severely depressed and eight times more likely to be suicidal. Some children are afraid to go to school, which can lead to poor grades or lack of concentration. It is hard for students to focus at school when they are worried about their bully. Bullying can make school a place of fear and can lead to school violence.
...anxiety disorders when they grown up. Victims of playground bullies carry physiological scars into adulthood which can have a profound of their life. US study shows that impact of bullying is not something easily outgrown and forgotten, “70 per cent of women and a third of men have faked an orgasm to avoid hurting their parents feeling”. Bullying , which we tend to think of as a normal and not terrible part of childhood , have serious consequences children.
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Bullying have about two distress faces: physical/ social/ environmental distress, and emotional/ psychological distress. In an article named “Bullying Among Young Adolescents: The Strong, The Weak, and The Troubled” by Jaana Juvonen, she describes a person who bullying as it causing health problems and more extreme violent behavior. In some cases as also described in this article bullied kids tend to become a bully themselves after being a victim of bullying. In an article by Sensei Serge titled “Why Do Bullies Bully?” Serge says that “Bullies lack the ability to self-regulate emotions.” I believe this is true, because a lot of research has been done, and...