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Another possibility is implied that a person may resort to bullying due to issues in their own home which are unhealthy. Maybe a lack of love, kindness, or attention causes a person to lash out at others as an outlet for their pain. A need for attention could be a contributor to this type of negative behavior. Perhaps a person acts out via bullying because it gets them noticed as opposed to being civil or polite. A person may act out due to failure towards academic achievement or some other goal that the bully may find value in. [Why] A bully may act as such when in certain situations where value is not placed on how people treat one another. When people fail to address a bully’s behavior as inappropriate, this manner continues and often progresses negatively over time. When someone attempts to imagine how a bully views their actions, one may wonder if the bully feels guilt or remorse over their actions. Leon Festinger, a social psychologist, suggested a theory. This theory is called cognitive dissonance. [Robertson] This theory suggests that humans are very inclined to be consistent in all areas of our life. Therefore, when a bully begins

With the relentless abuse from bullying, it can cause serious mental health problems in victims. Children can take so much mental and physical abuse

Issue: If you or your child have ever been a victim of bullying then you know how horrible one can feel. There are many emotions and fears associated with bullying, and no one should have to be subjected to it. Bullying can have a lasting effect not only in one’s present life but their future as well. Bullying is very prominent in schools today, and there has been an increase in school shootings, which is the extreme reaction to being bullied. Children need to consider each other’s feelings before they decide to bully or pick on each other.

Have you ever been a target of an individual’s cruelty and hatred? It does not necessarily have to be physical, but more like being verbally degraded or publicly humiliated. The effects bullying can have on its victims is something that may last throughout their lives, or something that may end their life(Braithwaite, Hyde, Pope, 2010).We all are well aware of childhood bullying but as evidence shows bullying does not stop on the

Bullying has many consequences for the victim, anxiety being one that can persist throughout a person’s life. There are different forms of bullying and it can occur in a range of different places. There is a strong association between being a victim of bullying and developing an anxiety disorder and there are a few possible explanations for why this happens. This essay will explore the effect that bullying has on a person and specifically how an anxiety disorder can develop from this through the learned behaviour of classical conditioning and social observational

Bullying is a form of repetitive proactive aggression in which the bullying is unprovoked and the bully initiates the bullying behaviour. (Dodge and Cole – 1987)

Bullying is a problem that is on the rise in society; however, many individuals have a distorted view of what bullying entails. Usually when someone thinks of bullying, they assume that it is a standard part of a child’s life. This view, on the contrary, is erroneous. Bullying is actually abnormal behavior, many times, leaving victims with a dismantled self identity. Since some people do not understand the consequences of bullying, the actions of the bully often go unnoticed and are perceived as “kids being kids”. The issue of bullying goes deeper than that nevertheless. Despite the erroneous views that many individuals hold towards bullying, it is still a distortion of normal behavior in children.

Everyone experience certain level of hostility, but most do not live with the anticipatory fear of pain and humiliation caused by the repeated aggression that characterizes bullying. Predatory individuals seek power and control over others, but carefully aggress against the most vulnerable victim repeatedly over time (Mah, 2009, pp.12-13). There are two types three types of bullies; the aggressive, follower, and the relational bully. Aggressive bullies overt aggression either physical or verbal as well as threats and intimidation. The follower is less likely to begin bullying, but is motivated to follow because the aggressive bully if the act of bullying is rewarded. Finally, the relational bully uses indirect forms of violence to inflict

The topic is in regards of the conundrum of bullying and how it affects individuals and its causes. Bullying and media is applicable to all fields of social sciences because it involves the heredity traits of aggressive genes that could lead to bullying in which relates to Anthropology, the mental state of the bully and victim in which relates to Psychology, and how bullies and victims are confronted in society in which is Sociology.

Interestingly bullying has been identified and studied internationally with the earliest work in the field initiated in the late 1970s by Dan Olweus in Scandinavia. Also, other researchers in Great

Even though several psychosocial theories can be used to understand the logic behind bullying, Albert Bandura’s theory of social learning provides the most effective base through which this review is focusing on. According to Bandura, human behaviour is either positive or negative and is learnt and can be unlearnt. Human beings learn through several social processes of modelling, imitation and copying and replicate what they have learnt (Carlson and Beins, 2012). The socially set institutions such as family, society, schools and peers provide channels through an individual which they may learn and internalize behaviours.

It has been investigated that there are two main features found in bullying behavior, power-concerned to bullying and affiliation-concerned to bullying, are connected to being violent and hurting others. (Fekkes,Pijpers,& Verloove-Vanhorick;2004).

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.

Bullying has been escalating to a certain degree that it has affected as many as 160,000 students that reported staying home from school every day, because they were afraid of being bullied (www.stompoutbullying.org). Bullying does not only stops one from wanting to go to school, it also makes one feel anxious, insecure, and unhappy at school, isolated and at times severely depressed (Young, Shin Kim, and Leventhal). Schools must have better resources available to students; this includes the victim and the bully. The victim should have both better counseling and stricter laws to protect them. Bullies also need counseling due to research which states “that many bullies tend to come from families where parents are more

The issue of bullying as a severe form of peer victimization should be addressed thoroughly by psychoanalysts to find palpable solutions or recommendations to curb the prevalence of this horrendous phenomenon. Abdirahman, Fleming, and Jacobson (2008) suggested that parental involvement reduces the possibility of bullying in high schools. For example, in Western countries students who are encouraged by their parents and have relatively good communication channels with them often feel psychologically stable and are unlikely to bully their peers. The role of school counselling is very essential regarding the amelioration of the bullying problems.