Childhood Bullying And Adulthood

Teens who have been bullied can suffer from serious health problems and academic issues. According to Ashley Strickland, author of the article “Bullying Is a ‘Serious Health Problem,’ Report Says”, “We need to understand that this is a public health problem faced by a third of our children,” said Dr. Frederick Rivara, chairman

To give a clear understanding of the various concepts and theories the effects of bullying and/or being bullied can have on people during their adult lifespan.

Childhood bullying has increased over the years. Due to the increase, there are a lot of children who suffer from bullying. Bullying experiences can lead to many health risk. Traumatic experiences often play a major role in shaping psychological functioning. (Espelage, Hong, & Mebane, 2016) gives the readers a better understanding of how childhood bullying can linger through adulthood and cause mental health risk. (Espelage 2016) was a single case study located in the Midwest that consisted of 482 college students. The students completed a survey which measured childhood bullying, and current levels of psychological functioning. While completing the survey the students were measured in six different ways. The first measure was socio-demographic (Espelage 2016), which consisted of race/ethnicity, age, gender, and grade level. Second, (Espelage 2016) implemented history of bullying victimization by using the university of Illinois victimization scale. The third measure was poly victimization, (Espelage 2016) used the adult retrospective version of the juvenile victimization questionnaire. The fourth measure aimed towards depression and anxiety; (Espelage 2016) used the brief symptom inventory-measuring psychological symptoms in community, medical, and psychiatric samples (Derogatis 1993). The fifth measure, measured post traumatic stress by using the short PTSD rating interview (Espelage 2016) (Conner & Baudson 2001). Last, (Espelage 2016) measured missing data by using a

Many of us believe it is the younger age group that is bullied most often, we think this because they are still in the stages of growing up. However, according to “Age Trends in the Prevalence of Bullying” (2007), “bullying affects kids ages 11-15, they have also noticed, once the teen hits ninth grade bullying begins to peak.” (p. 1) The article “Bullying Statistics” (n.d) claims teens in sixth through 10th grade are likely to be involved in activities related to bullying (para. 2).” The definition of bullying according to Merriam Webster (2016), is to frighten, hurt, or threaten (a smaller or weaker person) (p. 1).”

Every day in schools all around, children are being teased, threatened, tormented and taunted by bullies. Bullying has been a large factor among other cofactor where the victims suffer from psychological, emotional, physical and social health. If left unaddressed, bullying behaviors can cause long term damage to the individual’s well being that can increase later in life and cause problems in adulthood. Bullying can push the victim’s self-esteem to spiral down and feel disconnected from others eventually leading to self harm.

during their development from their childhood to their early adulthood. Sourander et al. (2007) studied the association between bullying and being a victim of bullying at an early childhood age of 8 and the mental disorder impact it has later in early adulthood. Some 2,540 boys born in 1981 were selected for the study. Information regarding bullying and being victims of bullying were captured from their parents, teachers and other children at the age of 8 or in 1989. Than further information was gathered on the subject during their life at the ages of 18 and 23 thru military registry information. Based on univariate logistic regression, children that only bullied frequently showed antisocial personality, issues with substance abuse, and mental

As more and more children go to school, the rates of bullying go up as time goes by. there are many times at which students suffer all the bullying that occurs within their lives. As more schools become aware of the magnitude of the bullying occurring right under their noses, there are rules created to aid the victim. There are various types of bullying and these are created to do one thing, instill superiority among the “stronger” and place a feeling of inferiority. Bullies are the ones who are detrimental to a child’s development.

The involvement of families in the daily lives of children can make a difference with their social skills development. The series of journals were gathered to find a connection between family/peers and bullies and how a dysfunctional family influence a child in becoming a bully/ bully-victim/ victim. Aubrey L. Springgs journal will cover the relationship between bullying involvement and family, peers and schools, across three ethnicities (African Americans, Hispanics, Caucasians) by using surveys. In journal “Impact of Bullying in Childhood on Adult Health, Wealth, Crime and Social Outcomes, the primary focus is the outcome of the participants that were labeled either as the bully, bully-victim, or victim. In the stand point of either their

Bullying is something that happens all the time to kids and adults. Bullying is aggressive behavior depending on what happened, how often it happens and who it happens to.

Childhood bullying has recently been considered a serious public health problem. Little research has been conducted regarding the predisposing factors involved in childhood bullies. Existing literature suggests that the child’s early home environment is strongly correlated with the development of anti-social behaviour. The research paper “Early Cognitive Stimulation, Emotional Support, and Television Watching as Predictors of Subsequent Bullying Among Grade-School Children” (2005), hypothesizes that (1) early cognitive stimulation, (2) early parental emotional support, and (3) early viewing of television within the household are predictors of bullying behavior, while controlling for baseline bullying (Zimmerman et al.,

The definition of bullying victimization is most often attributed to Daniel Olweus; who defined bullying victimization as an act in which a person is exposed to negative actions that are intended to inflict physical, mental or emotional distress (Olweus, 1994). One of the most significant consequences of bullying victimization is the observation that it occurs most often in repeated cycles that can affect the long-term emotional stability of the victim (Nansel, Overpeck, Haynie, Ruan, & Scheidt, 2003 ). Studies indicate that bullying victimization experiences often leave victims prone to defiant or delinquent behaviors, poor school performance, and anger or aggression problems (Nadel, Spellman., Alvarez-Canino, Lausell-Bryant, & Landsberg;

Bullying is a problem that affects individuals from all age groups, but mainly widespread among adolescents. It includes behaviors that focus on making someone else feel insufficient by mocking or harassing them. Bullying involves using physical violence, emotional harassment, and verbally belittling speech. It entails active actions with the intention of ostracizing another person (Howard, Flora & Griffin, 1999). Physical harassment is a form of bullying where the bully attempts to dominate another teenager physically (Stevens, 2010). It consists of punching, kicking, and other physical harmful activities, which are used to introduce fear in the victim and possible coerce them to do something (Howard, Flora & Griffin, 1999). Verbal bullying entails using demeaning language to destroy another person’s self-image (Stevens, 2010). Bullies who use the verbal techniques tease a lot and use sarcasm to hurt others’ feelings or humiliate the other teen especially in front of their friends or age mates (Thornberg et al., 2012). On the other hand, bullies who aim at getting another person to feel isolated use emotional techniques (Espelage & Holt, 2001). The bully uses this strategy to make other teenagers exclude the person being bullied. Today, cyberbullying is also becoming a very real problem for most teenagers. This type of harassment can be particularly devastating because the victim cannot find any safe place in the virtual

The adults carry a profound memory of certain events and they are categorized as retrospective events of childhood. The child hood bullying is a common element is creating anxiety and depression during the adulthood (Boulton, 2013). It is also likely that the students of college remember those bullying and teasing experiences which tend to result into various issues. These issues could be inherited characteristics as well as the interventions strategies that are deployed as coping strategies. The college students suffering from childhood teasing and bullying are likely to recall these events and relate them in developing a closed approach for later relationships and trust. The below sections are focused to investigate the retrospective events of college students in order to understand their relationship with the school age bullying.

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.

Now I understand how being bullied can be a very traumatic experience. Children can be very cruel in the things they say and do.  While watching the video above it really saddened me that Nadia felt that the only way to deal with being bullied was to receive plastic surgery. Personally, I don’t know how I would deal with this situation as a parent. On one side, I would want my child to be happy and not have to deal with constant bullying. But I would also want them to feel as though they are beautiful and accept the way they are. The only part of the video that truly bothers me is when the surgeon offer Nadia other procedure other than pinning back her ears. I felt that he should have only done the procedure that Nadia asked for. By offering