Bully : A Literature Review On Bullying

Raskauskas and Stoltz (2007) asked a group of 84 adolescents about their involvement in traditional and electronic bullying. The researchers defined electronic bullying as “…a means of bullying in which peers use electronics {such as text messages, emails, and defaming Web sites} to taunt, threaten, harass, and/or intimidate a peer” (p.565). The table below is a frequency table showing the adolescents’ reported incidence of being victims or perpetrators or traditional and electronic bullying.

Bullying often time begins early on in school age children. In order to understanding why children engage in bullying or become a victim of a bully, there are certain factors that need to be considered. Research has suggested that early socialization of children with others and home environment plays a role in displaying bullying behaviors and in victims of bullying. “ Children from harsh home environments engage in more bullying behaviors (as bullies and/or victims) than children from nurturing environments,” (Dake) The family is the initial model of socialization for children. If there’s a lack of unity, control or organization between the relationship of child and parents, then there is potential for children to act out by bullying other

The results and consequences of bulling in all sorts of format (verbal, cyber or physical)

And finally there is cyber bullying. This is through technology. It can vary from sending an insulting text message, email, or even sending a picture of another person out. It can also be on any social network, such as, Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and so on. This could cause a kid to be so upset that they are scared to go to school. This is a fast, easy way to for bullies to really

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School bullying is a type of bullying in which occurs during the time period a child is in school. Bullying can be physical, verbal, or emotional. Some consider bullying to be purposeful attempts to control another person through verbal abuse - which can be in tone of voice or in content such as teasing or threats - exclusion, or physical bullying or violence, which the victim does not want. While some ties the feature of "peer abuse" and "repeated activity" into the definition of bullying, others acknowledge single instances and age difference in their definitions of bullying. Bullying occurs in schools, workplaces, in homes, on playgrounds, in the military, and in nursing homes, for example. In the article "Uncovering the hidden causes of bullying and school violence" published in Counseling and Human Development in February, 2000, Barry K. Weinhold states that bullying is the most common type of violence in contemporary US society. Although a form of harassment, bullying is considered to be a separate category from sexual harassment. There are a variety of reasons why people bully. One of the reason is families issues. Families that are not warm and loving and in which feelings are not shared are more likely to have children who bully, either within the family home or in other locations in which the children meet others. Another home environment that is prone to producing bullies is one in which discipline and monitoring are inconsistent and/or a punitive atmosphere

Our society today suffers from multiple diseases. Diseases range from cancer, HIV, diabetes, and mental illness. What people do not usually think about as a disease is bullying. Bullying is one of those diseases that is a major problem is human lives. Bullying is an act that harms many people around the world, especially here in the United States of America.“Bullying can defined by many things. It’s teasing, name calling, stereotyping, cyber bullying, fighting, exclusion, spreading rumors, public shaming, and aggression intimidation” (Strickland). According to educational reports, an average of 15% of children in elementary school are in involved in bullying (Ross). This high of a percentage proves that bullying is still a major problem today in American society. While the percentage is not close to a hundred, those 15% of young children are affected enough. Fifteen percent of young children being bullied is more than enough to prove that bullying should be frowned upon. “[Bullying] can be in person and online. But it can often be considered a rite of passage” (Strickland). Bullying causes a variety of problems. The problems are not only in young people, but also adults who were bullied before. To cure this epidemic, it would be beneficial to society if society was informed about these negative effects.

While no universally accepted definition of bullying exists, most descriptions include three core components: repetitive patterns of aggressive behaviors, the intention to inflict harm, and a real or perceived power imbalance between the bully and the bullied (Warren, 2011). The delivery comes in various forms, such as direct physical abuse, direct verbal abuse, subtle relational bullying, and cyberbullying (Cooper, Clements & Holt, 2012). Likewise, numerous bullying behavior risk factors and etiological theories exist.

Bullying is defined as unwanted or aggressive behavior that causes someone to feel afraid or intimidated. This behavior could be something physical, verbal, or something done electronically or through social media. If someone feels threatened by someone’s actions or words, it could be considered bullying, even if that was not the intent.There are many types of bullying, how to recognize bullying, how to report bullying, what to do if you see incidents of bullying, and what resources are available to persons who have been bullied.

According to Bouchard, J. (2015) online harassment, or cyber bullying, defined as “willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text,” can also harm children and teens (Hinduja & Patchin, n.d)… Cyber bullies harass their victims by posting insults, taunts, threats, or slanderous statements on the Internet or by directly sending them to their victims through digital communication like email, text messaging, and instant messaging (Young, Young, & Fullwood, 2007).

Around the world lots of studies have been done about bullying and recent years showed the number of US studies are increasing fast. The comprehensive studies showed that isolated children who lack social skills are more likely will be bullied than those who have many friends with strong relationships. Boys and girls bully in a different way. Boys are more tending to be physically aggressive and girls tease and threaten, as their abuse is more often mental. The study also showed the bullies, victims, and bullies/victims have the highest level of anxiety, depression, and suicidal rate than those of their age group who are not involved with bullying. Most bullies get less attention from their family, may come from a single parent home or simply

In the article by Puhl and Luedicke the focus is bullying on obese adolescents. The purpose of the study was to examine how those targeted for having larger BMI’s coped with the teasing and to gage their emotional reactions. To answer the questions a survey was conducted at two high schools from central Connecticut. Before conducting the survey, the authors already know some of the repercussion of weight based victimization. That included emotional and physical damage and a decline in academics. “These consequences include risk of depression, anxiety, poor body image, social isolation, suicidality, maladaptive eating behaviors (e.g., binge eating, eating disorder symptoms and avoidance of physical activity” (Puhl & Luedicke, 2011, p. 2). The study also noted that academics suffered due to weight based bullying. Often the student being bullied would not come to school to avoid the conflicts. With this new study there were several specific goals and research questions that were to be examined at the high schools. “To identify specific coping strategies endorsed by adolescents in reaction to experiences of weight-based victimization, examine affective responses in reaction to weight-based victimization among adolescents. Based on recent research documenting vulnerability to negative affect (e.g., depression, low self-esteem) among obese youth who have been teased about their weight Second, the study aimed to examine links between weight-based victimization and school

Bullying during childhood is something everyone has witnessed or been a victim of a bully. Bullying is witnessed through mainstream media, social media, on television, in movies, and even in literature. Bullying is, according to Greene (2013), “the repeated, intentional aggression in a relationship, where there is an imbalance of power”. Also described as, “The methodical abuse of power characterized by repeated psychological and physical aggression with the intention to cause distress to another person (Scott, Dale, Russell, &Wolke, 2016). Unfortunately, bullying is an antiquated action with no official start date; however, bullying was not made a piece of systematic research, until the early 1970s (Olweus & Limber, 2010).

In the article “Bullying and Being Bullied in Childhood Are Associated with Different Psychosocial Risk Factors for Poor Physical Health in Men” by authors Karen A. Matthews, Richard J. Jennings, Laisze Lee, and Dustin A. Pardini, the idea that various aspects of childhood can be greatly affected by childhood bullying and being bullied is presented. Bullying is defined as a type of interpersonal aggressive behavior in which superior strength is used to intimidate or cause harm to a weaker party. In the article, the authors, through a study carried out on both black and white men, show the long-term outcomes that bullying and being bullied can have on an individual. These negative effects include stress, depression, anxiety, social issues, and various illnesses. Most individuals who underwent bullying believed that the only solution was suicide. However, self-efficacy skills can help in building a person’s confidence and therefore enabling them to gain motivation, and control over their behavior and social skills (Matthews, et al. 2017).

Every day, millions of people wake up afraid of bullies. Bullying can happen anywhere, anytime. Bullying is a big issue these days, and bullies’ actions are very unpredictable. No one knows who a bullies’ next target might be and what their reasoning is. Today, bullying can be considered more extreme than it was even ten years ago, with the advent of the internet and resulting cyber-bullying. Many celebrities and organizations are speaking out for the cause, warning others about the dangers of bullying and the sometimes-fatal consequences.