Negative Effects Of Bullying

Every year, approximately 7 percent of students report to being bullied (“Physical”). Most people know bullying is wrong, but it continues to play a dominating role in the lives of adolescents. Whether the bullying was done by spreading rumors, calling someone names or through the Internet, there are many different causes of bullying, why it occurs, and how it effects the victim. The causes of bullying can influence how the bully decides to target a victim. Victims of bullying can be targeted through physical, verbal, indirect or cyber bullying. The effects of bullying can be severe and long-lasting among victims.

Bullying in the schools of today harms the innocent students all because of the at home violence the bully had received I will talk about the risk of bullying along with the effect bullying has on students. Bullying has affected people since the dawn of time. The first reference that a bullying scenario was recorded is found in the Bible. This relates to Lord of the Flies in the way bullying took over their lives. From the story to today’s world, they are similar methods of bullying found in both, from making fun of a nerd to beating up a kid these are found in both.

Bullying has always been a very common issue in schools, but not easily recognized or taken care of. It was not until the increased number of s hootings in the 1900's and suicides that attention was brought into bullying in schools or “schoo l-bullying” (“School Bullying” 1). Today bullying impacts up to thirty percent of middle- to high-schoo l students (“School Bullying” 1). Whether or not bullying is more dominant in one’s life i s dependent on the age group: bulling general starts in early preteen years, but subsid es before adulthood.

The third and final study simply explored the harmful effects of bullying and how they came to be. They interviewed children and surveyed adults who were victims of bullying at some point in their lives. Some of the more common short term effects they discovered include anger, anxiety, depression, interference with work or school and suicidal thoughts. Uncovered patterns of long term effects include self-esteem issues, difficulty trusting others, bitterness, and increased risk of being bullied in the future. (Lynch, E.

Many people believe bullying is a part of growing up. Some believe every kid will experience bullying at one point or another in life. The time is not taken to think about how it might affect an individual in the future. Bullying shows to affect people’s mental and physical health overtime. When someone is bullied overtime it would have a larger impact on their later life. Bullying can deteriorate both an individual’s mental and physical health in a alarming way. The community should help to learn and provide information on identifying bullying and the affects of bullying. Bullying is extremely toxic to an individual, it may later negatively affect physical formation and function of the brain and how an individual may deal with stress. As a society this topic needs to be more discussed.

According to an article about bullying and victimization, it was noted that male victimization rates for bullies was among the highest and because bullying became more detrimental in the later stages of middle to late adolescents, due to self-blame, loneliness, anxiety and low self-esteem (Graham and Juvonen 1998). Also, peer victimization may lead to depression, low self-evaluation, anxiety and other different mental health problems (Crick &

Bullying is a pervasive problem among children and adolescents, and may take various forms including physical (e.g., hitting), verbal (e.g., name-calling), relational (e.g., social isolation), or occurring in cyber space. Previous studies have consistently shown that depression is associated with exposure to bullying. Bully-victims, a group of individuals who are both bullies and victims, are a distinct group at highest risk for psychosocial problems.

Most studies on bullying focus on the negative aspects, pointing to the extreme cases such as when the victim commits suicide. However, there is another side of the story (lead-in statements). Bullying can be beneficial, more so for the victim than the perpetrator (thesis). The perpetrator is playing into a predictable pattern of using power to seek social status and psychological control, or perhaps as a result of mental illness as Wente points out. Focusing too much on the reasons why bullies do what they do, researchers, parents, teachers, and children have forgotten to focus on the most important issue: how to turn bullying into a positive (stance). Bullying is not going away; it is something that adults do to each other and it seems to be built into social patterns and modes of communication universally. "The anti-bullying crusade has been around for years. Yet, kids still torment kids as much as ever even more than ever, now that they can do it around the clock in cyberspace," (Wente). Human nature is mean. By viewing bullying from the perspective of self-empowerment, it becomes possible to mitigate the many problems that bullying causes without resorting to useless interventions such as legislation, policies that are overly tough on bullies, or on assumptions about the victims. Bullying can be an opportunity for growth and maturity, for positive psychosocial development, and for self-esteem building (essay map).

Bullying is a complex human relational attribute that is difficult both to study and understand as regards its motivations as well as proliferation among peers. It is a sociological concept that requires a lot of accuracy, patience and detailed focus in order to unearth the inherent attributes that make it such a subtle and complex phenomenon defining human relationships. The Student’s Guide to Research gives insights on some of the steps that may be good in helping understand this concept by making a reference to combining both qualitative and quantitative research methods as a way of obtaining content to decipher the complexities surrounding this concept. The first step in understanding and analyzing bullying therefore would be to establish

Bullying can lead to disasters on everybody including to the person causing it, like school bombing/work shooting incidents. School shooters commit their sprees and are "set

The impacts of bullying carry similar consequences as those who are victimized by corporal punishment. Victims of these acts are more likely to develop social, emotional, and even physical complications in their lifetimes. These acts can affect a child’s self esteem, social skills and their ability to interact with other children, their level of trust with others, and if the abuse is intense enough, the victim can not only have scratches and bruises, but broken bones as well. Not only are these victims directly influenced by these behaviors, but these violent acts may cause the victim to engage in similar ways towards another individual. This only further exacerbates the problem.

Although both secondary and primary sources describe the impact that bullying has on the victim as being negative, there are still differences between them. Natalie, the fifteen-year-old victim, says, “‘Soon I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. I lost all self-esteem and became paranoid about people’” (Sawer). Depression, anxiety, and the other effects Natalie experienced from bullying are all harmful. She also said she considered suicide and would perform self-harm by doing things like tearing out her hair. The personal side of what bullying can cause a person to do/feel are revealed through what Natalie described. Although not as severe as Natalie, the other bullying victim, Eric, also had a damaging experience with bullying while it was occurring. Eric says, “’I think it's fair to say that bullying never affects the victim positively at a young age. It made me very shy and scared. I always felt like I had to be on guard’” (Goldman). The bullying had a negative impact on Eric’s life while it was occurring. He felt shy and scared which could be averse to his mental and physical health. The perpetrators made both the victims feel desolate. Feeling grim led to short term mental and physical issues such as being fearful and suicidal. The problems that Natalie and Eric faced shows the damaging impact that bullying had on the victim. The personal experience that is discussed is what makes the difference between the primary and the secondary source.

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. The bullied individual (the victim) typically has trouble defending him or herself and does nothing to “cause” the bullying. Bullying amongst the teens is mostly common in school, social places, and or streets where teens go out their way to harm or belittle the victim. This paper seeks to analyze the causes and effects of teen bullying.

School bullying and bullying as a whole has become a growing concern. The need for more intervention is more recognized, as incidents of bullying and inappropriate acts towards others occur in places outside of the classroom. This literature takes a closer look at bullying in schools. Olwesus (2013) states “the field of bullying research is to some extent plagued by problems, disagreements, and unresolved issues” (p.752). Whether if anyone will agree on the root of bullying, the fact remains that bullying has to be examined at its very core to remedy the matter before it becomes a bigger concern. There is a dire need for intervention based programs to be set in place to address the fact the act of bullying has lasting effects on the bully and the victim. When intervention programs are put into place to address bullying, the act of bullying decreases due to the gained understanding of the effects.

Thesis: Bullying in its many forms affects all people no matter age, gender, and class, but the effects can be very dangerous and very hurtful.