Bullying in Schools
Amanda Reid (100441335)
University of Rhode Island
Bullying Bullying is defined as the repeated aggression towards someone of a lower power status, with the intent to cause harm or hurt this person. It is a form of abuse and can take different forms such as physical, verbal, relational and cyber. (Monks, 2006; Craig, 2007). Physical bullying is the most obvious and is the actual harming of another human being; such as punching and kicking. Verbal bullying consists of name calling, teasing and threats towards another person. Relational bullying is harm related to emotional distress, this can include social exclusion, spreading rumors (Bauman, 2006). Cyber bullying is a more recent extension to the types of bullying, it is defined as, “the intentional act of aggression towards another person online” (Ybarra, 2004). This type of bullying can be enacted through e-mail, chatrooms, instant messaging and text-messaging (Low, 2013). Most bullying occurs in the school setting although it can occur within the home and workplace. (Monks, 2006). Bullying can start in the early years of life and can lead to problems later in life, such as having low self-esteem, problems creating and keep social relationships and depression. (Bauman, 2006). Bullying can also have immediate effects having low self-esteem in school due to repeated exposure to bullying the victim will come to believe that they are weaker and deserve to be bullied, which is an example
Bullying by definition is a form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions. [Why] Bullying has grown new outlets over the last decade. With social media outlets and text messaging added to the game, bullying is not just about getting tormented face to face anymore. Cyber bullying can include sending out mean or threatening emails and instant messages about a person, spreading rumors about someone and also include photos that a person would consider to be humiliating. [Chamberlin] Bullying can have many outlets. The most common form of bullying is still face to face confrontation. But
According to the American Psychological Association, “Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions” (Bullying, 2013). People bully each other for several reasons and there are different outcomes that are a result of those reasons. People can be bullied physically, emotionally, or verbally. Bullying can take place at school or online. Bullying should be a considered a crime, but kids get away with it all the time; furthermore prevention can be used in order to keep kids safe from bullying.
There are many different forms of bullying, such as physically bulling someone is when someone is hit, punched, pushed, or have their personal items stolen and any other kind of physical aggressive behaviour. Verbal bullying is when someone is called names, threatened. Social bullying is when someone is left out, deliberately ignored and has bad things spread about them and made to feel like an outsider, Psychological bullying is when someone is stalked or intimidated.
Bullies may abuse their victims verbally, physically, or psychologically. Bullying may involve name-calling, pushing or hitting, or preventing an individual from joining a social group or participating in an activity. It may also involve harassing, embarrassing, or threatening a person using cell phones, text-messaging devices, interactive games, instant messages, or websites. This type of bullying is called cyberbullying (Funk & Wagnalls). Unlike traditional bullying, which is most likely to occur at school, cyberbullying can occur anywhere that children and youth have access to technology, leaving targets accessible to perpetrators at any time of the day or night. Although bullying is often associated with children, bullying of adults by adults is just as pervasive and harmful. Adult bullies are characterized as often being subtle in their attack by starting harmful rumors or by using sarcastic or demeaning language to dominate or embarrass, being self-centered, lacking empathy for others, spontaneous in their attacks, and/or using the threat of attack (as opposed to using physical violence or actions) as a means to frighten and demonstrate power (Kowalski).
Some students wonder what bullying means and why it affects health to the bullied. Bullying is defined as a form of youth violence by attacking or intimidating with the goal to hurt, cause fear in the way of physical abuse, teasing or by causing rumors. Bullying can also be in the forms of technology through social networking like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The bullying ways always involve an imbalance of powers between the bully and the bullied, this resulting in physical injury, social and emotional problems such as being a loner, and eventually leading to suicide. Even though bullies hurt people in terrible ways, they may have been hurt too.
Baezelon (2013) says that “Bullying is a particular form of harmful aggression, linked to real psychological damage, both short and long term.” A bully is someone who feels the need to pick on others, sometimes due to his or her own inferiority. There are four different types of bullying. Physical bullying is any type of physical harm to someone, such as hitting, kicking, or pushing. Verbal bullying is putting someone down through words some examples are name calling or insults. Indirect Bullying is gossiping or spreading rumors with the intention to hurt the victim. Cyber Bullying is hurting someone through social media. (Make Beats not Beatdowns,
Bullying can be both aggressive and verbal abuse among people that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Physical examples of bullying include pushing and shoving another person. While emotional bullying consists of any type of name calling, sending untrue and hurtful messages, and starting rumors about someone. Bullying can happen anywhere, not just in school but in your neighborhood and it doesn't necessarily have to occur in person. Another form of bullying is cyberbullying- bullying that takes place using electronic technology such as cell phones, computers, and various other devices. Examples include a mean text, a fake page/profile about someone with false statements or posts, and through videos and various websites. Bullying is one of the leading causes of suicides each year in the United States, thus spreading awareness about this is very important as it is responsible for taking the lives of many innocent
Social bullying includes lying or spreading rumors, negative gestures or looks, playing harmful or inappropriate jokes, mimicking, excluding people, or damaging someone’s reputation. Cyber bullying includes abusive or hurtful emails, texts, posts, images, or videos, intentionally excluding others online, gossip or rumors, imitating others online or using accounts of others without permission. The statistics of bullying. Nearly 30
Bullying is described as the ongoing physical or emotional victimization of a person by another person or group of people. Cyber-bullying is an emerging problem in which people use social media and texting, to harass and cause emotional harm to their victims.
During these days, bullying was thought more of an innocent ‘misbehavior’ and was part of a normal childhood’s behavior. Although it did happen, it was never really a huge ordeal, so there was not a word described for this kind of behavior, so it was thought little of during this time. However, bullying went on the rise during the twenty-first century. Bullying was not recognized until the nation heard of a few cases of suicide due to severe harassment and finally realized that this is an occurring problem in our nation. As technology has advanced, bullying has now taken over online and has become a major issue as well. Several cases have become so dreadful that cyber bullying had become its own category in the different types of
First, there is what is known as verbal bullying. This includes saying or writing mean things. Verbal bullying includes teasing, name-calling, inappropriate sexual comments, taunting and threatening to cause harm. The second type of bullying is social bullying or what is also known as relational bullying. This involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships, including leaving someone out on purpose, telling others not to be friends with someone, spreading rumours about someone, and embarrassing someone in public. Finally, there is physical bullying, which involves hurting someone’s body or possessions, which includes hitting, kicking or pinching, spitting, tripping or pushing, taking or breaking someone’s things, and making mean or rude hand gestures (Bullying Definition). As of the last few years, there has been a fourth type of bullying has been added to the list. As of the 2010’s cyber bullying has been recognized as the fourth form of bullying. Cyber bullying is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic forms of contact including the Internet, cellphones, social media and any other form of electronic contact (Wikipedia, 2017). This form of bullying is especially common among
With school-aged children, bullying more frequently happens while they are at school, or afterward when the students are not being supervised by their teacher in places like the cafeteria, bus, lockers, playground or neighborhood. Now that kids have access to online technology, bullying can also happen on the internet. With this in mind, teachers must now research and understand what bullying is, and develop methods to help fight against bullying. Bullying is the aggressive, unwanted behavior that occurs between kids of all ages. Children that bully are using the power they believe they have over other kids to try to control and harm them. Bullying can happen via verbal, social, or physical abuses, such as name-calling, threats, spreading rumors, isolation, embarrassment, spitting, hitting, destroying personal things, etc. In order to be considered bullying, these bad behaviors are repeated over time.
According to Atkinson (2007), bullying is not just one line of actions but a broad set of nasty and predatory behaviors which involves the strong in society picking on the weaker ones. Sanders & Phye (2007) define bullying as any action or behavior that is initiated by a bully against another person (victim or victims) and which inflicts physical and psychological intimidation to this victim. Bullying behavior is of two main categories the first being physical and the second being the online bullying. Further, physical bullying behaviors can be re-classified as either direct or indirect. The former (direct) bullying may occur in the forms of teasing, threatening, hitting, or stealing. Indirect bullying can be propelled through such harassments like rumor spreading or social isolation. Typically, the direct bullying methods
There are many types of bullying which is highly dependent on the nature of bullying. for example, the physical bullying may incorporate such behavior as hitting, pinching, kicking and any form of physical abuse considers physical bullying. The verbal bullying which incorporate spreading rumors, gossiping, insulting and teasing. Next which is the emotional bullying and this includes isolating and excluding other from the group. Finally, the cyber bullying which is another form of a violence practiced when online communication (Rai,2012). In addition, further elaboration for Physical bullying which happens when the bully practices physical aggression to force, threaten, or damage the sufferer. This is typically the easiest shape of
Bullying is a bad thing but the worst of all the types of bullying is cyber bulling, it is a terrible weapon that can destroy someone's life and reputation. Cyber bullying is a part of bullying in which a person torments or harasses other people in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner, with technology. It has had a much greater effect on the world more than the traditional way of bullying.