Bullying Vs Traditional Bullying

In 2014, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) did a study on bullying and the found that 19.4% of all the students interviewed had been bullied at school. This may not seem very surprising, bullying has been going on for decades. Generations of men and women have come to fear the people who walk the halls, stealing lunch money from those weaker than them. However, it is interesting to note that 14.8% of that 19.4% had reported being cyber bullied. Unlike the standard physical bullying, cyberbullying is a slightly more recent development, but it has evolved to become much more deadly. It gives bullies a better tool for creating more widespread pain. The awareness for cyber bullying needs to increase and ultimately, cyberbullying needs to be abolished completely due to its destructive capabilities.

An average bullying session lasts about 37 seconds; an adult intervenes in the problem about one in twenty-five times (Bullying Facts). Bullying is seen as aggressive and unwanted behavior between two or more people (Aspa).  Most people who are not involved in the actions going on do not really know it’s happening.  Most parents do not even know when their child, or children, are being bullied (Bullying Facts).  Bullying can be prevented if the right consequences take place.  Parents and schools have the rules about bullying prevention, but these do not prevent the bullying from continuing their ways.  People who bully often should receive bigger consequences because eventually the problem could escalate and the bully will continue their

Traditional bullying used to be more common back when there was no texting or social media. Bullying consistently takes place in person: the common actions often include teasing, taunting, humiliating, and sometimes showing acts of violence. Cyberbullying takes place online making it more humiliating and intolerable for the victim since the information doesn’t go away. They both equally cause the victim emotional distress and significantly lower their confidence while the bully feels more authoritative and quite satisfied. While the fear of getting bullied grows in the victim, they start to feel unsafe and decide not to go to school. All the students deserve to attend school without the fear of getting humiliated, harassed, or bullied, but what are the bystanders and teachers doing about bullying?

Bullying has been around since the beginning of time. Parents may remember when they were kids and the bully would pick on them or their friends by stealing lunch money or just getting beat up, and that was the end of it. The victims remember the hurt, frustration, and sadness it caused. However, these days, bullying is not just happening on the playground or at the bus stop, it is happening on the Internet and on cell phones, making it possible to bully a child 24 hours a day with multiple bullies and thousands of kids watching. Cyberbullying follows children nonstop and into the safety of their house. Sometimes kids are afraid to inform their parents about the cyberbullying that they will think its there fault. Or that their parents will call the bullies parents or other parents, making the bullying worse. However, the effect and pain that comes from cyberbullying is real. People underestimate cyberbullying, just because it is happening online and not in person. Cyberbullying can lead to many different factors like drinking, and drugs, poor grades, depression, eating disorders. Many students have even taken their own lives because of another student saying something to them online. Cyberbullying has been taking place a lot more in middle and high schools because of the increased usage of social media networks and technology. Cyberbullying is worse and more harmful than traditional bullying.

Cyber-bullying can be broadly defined as any form of harassment or intimidation that takes place online (O’Dea & Campbell, 2012, p. 212). According to O’Dea and Campbell (2012), approximately one in three teens experience some form of cyber-bullying throughout their lives (p. 212). In their study, O’Dea and Campbell (2012) found that this number of teens (out of 400 study participants) report “multiple feelings of victimization, embarrassment, or harassment” (p. 212). One of the most significant issues with cyber-bullying is that this activity reaches a much wider audience than typical face-to-face bullying (O’Dea & Campbell, 2012, p. 212). This means that the victim of bullying may feel escalated feelings of shame and social isolation, as the person bullying can send their negative messages to as many people as he or she chooses (O’Dea & Campbell, 2012, p. 212). Cyber-bullying generally takes on two different forms: Bullying from someone who the victim knows, or from a complete stranger. O’Dea and Campbell (2012) say that online bullying can come from almost any source, given the fact that online social networks are highly open to the public (p. 212). Of course, this raises the issue of online privacy. While sites like Facebook and Twitter have privacy settings, there are very few effective measures that can fully prevent

In Cyber Bullying Not as Concerning as Face-to-Face For Kids: Study, Jorge Branco claims, “In a survey of 156 kids who'd suffered both forms of victimisation, almost 60 per cent said traditional bullying was more hurtful.” People who have experienced both types of bullying said that traditional bullying is worse. Usually, when it hasn’t happened to you, you answer differently than someone who had this happen to them. This matters because, this is the answers of people who actually know what it’s like, it’s not random people who haven’t been bullied

How do cyberbullying and bullying differ? Some would say that cyberbullying is taking off due to the increase in technology, some say that bullying is more common and therefore has a bigger impact. These three articles help to explain the differences between cyberbullying and traditional bullying, while another two articles explored the effects of cyberbullying on teenagers. Each paper explains their findings using different methods, mainly by using logical appeal as well as emotional appeal. Logical appeal and emotional appeal play a major role in identifying the audience of each psychology article and can be used to determine each author’s stance on how bullying differs from cyberbullying, which can impact teenagers’ mental health in varying ways.

Emotional distress is probably the biggest difference between cyberbullying and traditional bullying. Cyberbullying is a very serious matter. Journal of School Health Association Stassen, Berger noted, “almost every student is threatened occasionally. Consequently, most of the victims will find protective strategies who suffer from anxious, aggression, or irritation. Accordingly, this may cause teenagers to become victims” (647). The emotional effect of cyber bullies to their victims has increased the risk of depression, social isolation, and obesity. Moreover, the victims become powerless with daily harassment online with no control, they have suicidal thoughts. Although, traditional bullying have a similar serious impact of emotional distress.

Healthy peer relationships are a very important part of an adolescent's life and a key part of human development. A strong peer relationship is important in both emotional and social development. Positive peer relationships are associated with finding out who you are as a person, finding out your sense of self-worth, having healthy self-esteem, and developing skills for a thriving romantic relationship Raskauskas, Stoltz 2007). Even though bullying has been around for a while, bullying can affect emotional and social development in adolescents. Now in today’s age with the help of technology bullying is evolving into something that is even more dangerous than traditional bullying. Developmental Psychology (Vol. 43, pp.564-575, May 2007) talks about the different types of bullying, how they can affect human development and how technology has made it possible to be bullied in your own home.

Bullying is acknowledged a behavioral disorder, which has unfortunately affected so many people. Although the more common type of bullying is school bullying, which is categorized as school violence, there is also cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is as the word defines a type of bullying that takes place over the Internet. The Internet is not what it once was, a world where people just e-mailed one another or searched for research material. The Internet harbors constant cyberbullying, and it takes place over various kinds of websites, social media, chat rooms, so on and so forth. Bullying behavior doesn’t just remarkably switch towards a nice personality once a person gets on the Internet. Cyberbullying is an important concern that has been drawing more and more attention, however, the focus of this paper will be directed on school bullying.

While cyberbullying affects each child differently, there has been a clear correlation between victims and non-victims and their self-esteem. In one study, bullied victims had less self-esteem than those who were not bullied online. Additionally, it was reported that victims of cyberbullying were thirty percent more likely to think about committing suicide (Cyberbullying Research Center, 2012). With the lack of parent supervision, it was found that those who spent more than three hours per school day on social networks were 110% more at risk to be a cyberbully victim as compared those who do not spend as much time online (Gilkerson, 2012). What may be worse is the fact that majority of those bullied online do not tell their parents or an adult about what occurred. Despite the fact that most adolescents state that bullying occurs more offline then online, cyberbullying is still a real and large threat to the youth of America (Lenhart, 2007).

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.

Bullying is meticulous act that hurts young victims emotionally and physically. In other words bullying occurs when a more powerful person hurts, dismay or intimidates a weaker person on a frequent and deliberate basis. Bullying takes two different types traditional bullying and Cyber bullying. Traditional bullying takes three different forms, physical, verbal and social. Hitting, poking, shoving, tripping and slapping victims manifest physical bullying. Name-calling, derision, insults, teasing and racist remarks are forms of verbal bullying. Persuading others to exclude or reject someone are characteristics of social bullying. On the other hand cyber bullying, refers to the aggression through the Internet and technology. Cyber bullying takes place by sending mean messages, claiming to be someone else in order to despise that person and posting hurtful assertions about an individual. This kind of bullying can occurs by e-mail, blogs, instant messaging, and Web sites or through text messaging ( Sidorowicz, Hair & Milot, 2009). Relational aggression is a type of aggressive behavior. Relational aggression consists of social exclusion, friendship retirement threats, the spreading of malicious secrets, lies or gossip and giving the silent treatment.

Fisher et al. (2014) discusses the prevalent ethical issue of bullying in the United States. The research questions the correlation between school diversity, student race victimization, and bullying. 4,581 middle school students in grades sixth through eighth were surveyed. The data collected was from a 208-questionare, assessed the students’ physical, social, and psychological behaviors. School diversity was measured by dividing the number of a specific ethic racial group by the total number of students in the school. Student race victimization was calculated by a specific question in the survey of “a kid at my school teased me about my race/ethnicity or the color of my skin.” Bullying was determined by 13 items in the survey related to social exclusion, physical aggression, and name calling. The students were also asked to write the number of times these incidents occurred in the past year (p. 1241-1244). Results proved that there was a link between bullying and race. Middle school European American students were bullied more than their peers when they are the ethnic minority (Fisher et al., 2014). After carefully reviewing the study, the privileged group of European Americans may still experience oppression of bullying while being the minority in a school setting.

Robin Henig and Maria Konnikova separately researched and wrote about the “millennial generation” and how different aspects are playing into the decline of maturation from adolescence into adulthood. Society around us changes every day which means the things you have to go through are different versus what other generations had to overcome. The world needs to take into account all of the ongoing norms that keep altering in generations today. Consequently, the technological world’s easy access to social media is what really needs to be focused on. Although social networking allows for great connections and even potentially expands your friend group, it is only causing a decline in social interaction around the world and in my opinion leading us as humans to more judgement, ridicule, and bullying. Moreover these acts of bullying are affecting Gen Y's adult years more than people are realizing, as it potentially results in psychological problems, wrong decisions, and even alters social interactions with others.