Psy 315 Week 2 Stop Bullying

Bullying is a situation where one person abuses power over another. Bullying is about power, control and abuse. Bully’s come in all shapes, sizes and forms. Bullying occurs throughout a human’s life span. The most-critical development stage of one’s personality is adolescence. Bullying during adolescence has been a major issue in every community. Bullying can happen in three known forms; direct, indirect, and cyber. Both gender and sexual orientation are associated with all forms of bullying. Bullying affects self-esteem and family cohesion.

Despite the anti-bullying campaign that’s been established in every school across America, bullying still happens. For a lot of students, school is an unsafe, uncomfortable environment. Bullying happens in many different forms and sometimes it’s hard to recognize.

Online Bullying or even face to face bullying has been around for a long time. No matter what people try to do it won’t just away, this why i think that schools shouldn’t limit students online speech.The First Amendment states that we have the “freedom of speech” and schools need to respect and protect that right. Also, why should it matter what people say online or face to face? If it's not during school hours it’s not their concern.

Bullying is defined as “verbal, physical, or psychological abuse or teasing accompanied by real or perceived imbalance of power” and is usually targets what children perceive as different (Olweus, 1993). Bullying is prevalent across the nation. It has devastating effects on students each day. Bullying is a problem for all students, regardless of race, gender or class. The National Education Association reports that 160,000 children are absent intentionally from school each day because they fear being bullied whether it is an attack or just intimidation by other students. This accounts for 15% of all school absenteeism (Hunter, 2012). Dan Olweus (1993) from the National School Safety Center tells us that bullying includes three parts: (1)

Being bullied by fellow peers is the worst thing that can happen to a child as it can cause them to run away, try to commit suicide, and be physically and mentally hurt for life without them being able to do anything since the adults at their school refuse to put a stop to the bullying.

Prevalence of victimization of bullying occurs highest in elementary school. One study estimates that 19% of elementary students suffer from bullying. While the prevalence of victimization is slightly lower in middle school, 11% of students are reporting occasional bullying (Pellegrini & Brooks, 2001).

The type of people who are most targeted by bullying is the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) youth.

In most cases 64% of students do not report being bullied and only 36 % of students report it. Moreover, having an adult intervene on behalf of the student being bullying has been effective in reducing the hostile behavior against the other student being bullied by more than half of the bullying situations by 57%. Programs against bullying have shown to decrease the percentage of children being bullied by up to 25%. Above all, students have reported to be bullied the most because of appearance by (55%), body shape by (37%), and race by (16%). Cyber bullying (online bullying) has become common among students and 19.6% of children become victims. From those children who are being cyber bullied 90% report being bullied in person as well. However, children who have a disability have a higher chance of being bullied two or three times more than children who are not disabled. Children who identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) were also bullied because of what they identified themselves with in regards of their sexual orientation. For that reason, 81.9 students from the LGBTQ community were bullied. Overweight students were victims of bullying and 64% were reported. Lastly, being a victim of bullying elevates suicidal ideation by 2.4 attempts more, and 3.3 more times likely to prepare a plan and proceed to commit suicide. In conclusion, children need interventions such as positive reinforcement and cognitive therapy to overcome the effects of bullying (Pacer,

Bullying is bound to happen anywhere at any time but occurs mostly within school limits. Kathleen Winkler defines bulling in her book, Bullying, as “...any kind of ongoing physical or verbal mistreatment, done with the intent to harm, where there is an imbalance of power between bully and victim” (Winkler 14). Bullying has an extremely important impact on one’s everyday life and can affect their life negatively getting to the point where they can no longer take the blow. To try and prevent bullying from taking place in schools, one needs to know how bullying effects a person, what the role of each person involved in the situation is, and have knowledge of specific methods on how to prevent it. Bullying in schools is a serious problem and a handful of school do their part to prevent it; others, not as much, which means there is room for improvements.

Victims as well as the bullies can be of both genders “(Girls overall reported higher rates of bullying than boys (31.4 percent for girls compared to 24.5 percent for boys)”(Indicators); males tend to lean more towards physical abuse and property damage, while female bullies tend to gossip, anem call, etc-i.e emotional abuse. Aside from age and gender, race plays a role in the bullying cycle; minority children have a tendency to get targeted more often, for the simple fact that they are different from the instigator. Bullying occurs in all communities and cultures; however, schools are a common ground for many types of abuse. Steps to Respect and Positive Action focus on educational environments in effort to create a sense of safety and wellbeing for students, teachers, and parents. Bullying is a significant problem. “The most recent data in the U.S. covers the 2010–2011 school year during which 27.8 percent of students ages 12–18 reported having been bullied at school. Statistics vary based on multiple variables such as if students are reporting the bullying and how truthful the bullies are, along with

Bullying is an undesirable, antagonistic conduct among not only school aged children but also adults. People who are bullied may have serious and long-term problems. Bullying has become more prominent throughout the years, increasing the suicide rate in the U.S. to 24.5% since 2003. (Hey U.G.L.Y, 2006) This results in approximately 160,000 individuals stay home from school or work each day because they are afraid or feel threatened by bullies. (Hey U.G.L.Y, 2006) Approximately 4,400 lives are lost each year due to bullying. (Hey U.G.L.Y, 2006) A nationwide survey was done throughout public schools and private schools in 2014 to find out how many students actually considered suicide due to bullying. (Hey U.G.L.Y, 2006) 15% of students reported

One type of bullying is cyberbullying. It involves being bullied on the Internet. Unfortunately, 6% of students in grades six to twelve experienced

According to Cristina Maza in “Bullying Prevention: Can Students Make Kindness Cool?”, “In 2013, some 20 percent of high school students reported experiencing bullying, according to federal data compiled on StopBullying.gov - the figure jumps to 28 percent when middle school students are included” (Maza, 2015, Pg.1). An ample amount of students in the United States are bullied everyday at schools and even on social media. Schools are doing a great amount to prevent bullying during and after school because they are getting the students and even the parents involved.

Many people do not realize how serious bullying has become. If you look at statistics suicides due to bullying have increased over just a few short years. This has become a very big problem for not only the victim but the bully as well as it affect both of them. School bullying is mentally destructive to not only the victims, but bullies because of the harmful words, harassment, and physical violence involved as well as the consequences for the bully.

Personally, I have never been a victim in any shape or sort of bullying. However According to the National Center For Education Statistics, there are 14.9 Million students in the U.S. and at least 47 Percent of them will be effected in some shape of bullying. That is over 6 Million kids in the U.S. who will be impacted by bullying. It also states that girls are less likely to be contributors of bullying, they still have the same effects or it can be just as bad as the boys bullying. According to the National Bullying Prevention Center bullying happens in numerous places. Such as, Hallways, Cafeteria, Classrooms, Bathroom, School buses, Social Media, Locker Rooms, And Outside of school.