...Introduction Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. There are four kinds of bullying in school, in which all of them is very harmful; it is Physical, Verbal, Covert, and cyber bullying Theodore Roosevelt once quoted, “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.” and this quotation made by the former US president applies to everything in life. People should not commit to just knowing that something is right; they have to commit to it fully and do exactly what is right. People know that they sometimes do wrong but what they really need to do is treat people with respect, think before they commit to their actions and understand that sometimes life doesn’t offer the second chances that they often take for granted. Knowing what is right, just like knowing that people should be treated right and be respected is nonsense if you are mistreating and disrespecting other people. People should learn how to incorporate truth in their lives and they should learn to accept what is right and live with it, so that we can live in a...
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...Cyber-bullying Bullying has become an epidemic that the educational system has been campaigning to cease through the establishment of school wide anti-bullying policies. In recent years the federal government has implemented the National Safe Schools Framework and the Civil Liability Act of 2002, to assist educators with diminishing schoolyard bullying (Campbell 64). Since the development and rise of technological resources, cyber-bullying has expanded the opportunity for the act of bullying to take place; bullying is no longer isolated face to face. Students’ abilities of escaping to a safe haven, away from their harasser, are almost nonexistent. The use of the internet and cellphones has extended the capability of students to be targeted in private places, such as their homes. Due to the extremities and serious effects of cyber-bullying, school policies concerning bullying need to address and incorporate cyber-bullying. ” The effects of cyber-bullying on a victim are similar to those effects of school bullying. Mathew Campbell, author of ”School Policy Reponses to the Issue of Cyber-Bullying agrees, victims of cyber-bullying expressed feelings of depression and anxiety, thoughts of and attempts of suicide, self-mutilation, lower self-esteem, and a hatred of school (63). It can also be said that these effects can be more severe in cases of cyber-bulling because there is no escape for the victim. The internet and use of cell phones has enabled the harasser to intrude...
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...Pampanga State Agricultural University Magalang, Pampanga A partial requirement in MAED 202 (Methods of Research) Bullying and Academic Performance of the Grade 7 students in Andres M. Luciano High School CECILIA G. TULABOT Master of Arts in Education Major in Educational Management Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction In schools, bullying occurs in all areas. It can occur in nearly any part in or around the school building, thought it more often occurs in recess, hallways, bathrooms, on school buses and waiting for buses, classes that require group work or after school activities. Bullying in school sometimes consist of a group of students taking advantage of or isolating one student in particular and gaining the loyalty of bystanders, who, in some cases want to avoid becoming the next victim. School bullying is a widespread issue that affects secondary school students in three essential parts of their lives; psychologically, educationally and professionally. Bullying is a sort of aggressive behavior against others such as, verbal by calling nasty names, physical by kicking, pushing or tripping up and social by everyone stopped talking to you. Academic achievement is the first aspect which influences bullying at school. therefore, bullied children live within fear, self-blame, feel weak and it affects their personality traits and self-confidence, so this situation makes them unable to study well and they might hate going to school....
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...in the country have anti-bullying policies. These policies are all different and are implemented in different ways. Most of these policies are not effective though. Anti-bullying policies are not effective against all bullying because school bullying and its effects are still seen, because of the growing use of technology, and because of family influences. Anti-bullying policies are not effective because school bullying cases are still frequently happening in schools. Bullying is a major problem in the world today and it can be seen almost everywhere and it happens every day to people. It most commonly occurs in schools though. Many schools have adopted policies that they use to help prevent bullying in their establishment. However, these policies are not always effective. A study by a University of Texas in Arlington found that students at a school that had an anti-bullying policy, “were 1.2 times more likely” to be bullied than students who attended a school without an anti-bullying policy (Antoniades, pg. 1). This confirms the fact that these policies are not always effective. A school that does have a policy actually is more likely to have bullying. A student is often challenged to bully because they see that they can’t and that urges them break the rules. They want to do it even more then. Bullying still happens in school and some schools seem to have increasing rates of bullying. The policies put in place, “appear to lead to higher rates of student misbehavior and also correlate...
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...Introduction Introduction School bullying is a pervasive problem found in elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States and around the world. It can take many direct and indirect forms, including physical violence, name-calling, taunting, teasing, and malicious rumor-spreading and social exclusion. Once thought of as a normal part of growing up, school bullying is now widely recognized as a serious problem that must be met with systematic preventative efforts. This article examines the nature, prevalence, and effects of school bullying. Bullying is a rising concern that plagues many of our schools. It is important for schools to address the issue of bullying because a vast amount of research has found that it can have a negative effect on students in terms of academic achievement, social and emotional development, and overall life adjustment. There are lots of reasons why students are bullying other students. Sometimes they think, “If they can do that, I can also do that too!” Students may also think that if the members of their group are bullies they need to be too. Sometimes students are afraid that if they were not bully, someone else will bully them. They also become to let out their hurt and anger. Bullying doesn’t involve only those doing the bullying and those being bullied. Bullying also involves and affects the entire school. The 3 main groups that are affected by bullying are the students who are bullied, the students who bully and the bystanders who...
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...Effects of Bullying among Children and Adults Jose Vargas PSY325 Prof. Mar Navarro Submitted 5/7/2012 Currently, bullying is a large problem in schools which causes significant stresses to its victims (Voss & Mulligan, 2000). Bullying became a greater concern for school personnel, parents & research after a series of school shootings in the late 1990s, including Columbine (Seals & Young, 2003). The effects of bullying are seen over a long period of time in the lives of participants and can lead to antisocial behavior amongst both perpetrators and victims of bullying (Voss & Mulligan, 2000; Seals & Young, 2003.) This paper intends to conduct an overview on the effects that bullying has on its victims, both adult and child and which group is more or less likely to become bullied. It is also important to examine how the effects of bullying differ by age, gender, ethnicity and other factors that lower social status which predispose people to bullying. This paper proposes that bullying impacts groups differently and thus the symptomatology that results will differ, with those who are socially disadvantaged experiencing the greatest impact of bullying on their lives. Bullying should also show strong outcomes for negative social adjustment in its aftermath, including increased depression, stress, alcohol abuse and decreased self-esteem. Bullying is defined as repeated aggressive behavior which is intended to harm or disturb a person in which the conflict is...
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...School Bullying Junel Loyola DeVry University School Bullying School bullying is a continuing major issue around the world today. Everyday someone in the world is falling victim to bullying. It is a kind of torment that we, as a society, should help prevent as much as possible. Bullying can take on several forms, both physically and mentally. Nevertheless, it is a type of abuse that can have both short term and long term effects on a person's life. Such abuse can lead to injury, psychological harm, or even death in some cases. In school, it was often noticeable that a student is being bullied. It can happen anywhere in the school: in hallways, in the cafeteria, or even inside classrooms. According to John Cloud (2012), current antibullying programs are a waste of time and money. School bullying still happens whether or not an antibullying program is adopted by the school (Jeong & Lee, 2013). If this is the case, then bullying may be more common than anyone thinks. As a society, we should eradicate bullying in order to protect the well-being of students and to deter physical and psychological harm from them. First, one must understand what bullying is and its causes and effects. Bullying can happen for many reasons. One can be bullied for being "different", doing something embarrassing, or being labeled by false rumors that makes the victim look bad to other people. It causes problems for students, such as physical or verbal abuse. Secondly, it is important to know...
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...The Damages Bullying Has on School Aged Children Brandi GEN 499: General Education Capstone Instructor: Irene Robles-Huerta December 2, 2015 The Damages Bullying Has on School Aged Children Bullying is a widely known and seen epidemic that negatively impacts its victims, and even the person doing the bullying. Bullying is the act that causes harassment, embarrassment, humiliation, intimidation, and physical or emotional trauma, and is present no matter the age, race, gender, religion, or culture. Although society has seen the ever growing epidemic of bullying in school aged children, the argument of the damaging and everlasting psychological effects that bullying has on the victims are not always talked about or analyzed to show how the victimization impacts the child for much longer than just their childhood. This paper will analyze the long term damaging effects that bullying had on its school aged victims, while looking at the implications for therapists treating the victims, the therapeutic aspects related to bullying, and how the use of therapy can lessen the long term effects that bullying will have on the bullies and their victims. Although, there may not be a complete solution to bullying itself, there is a solution that will limit some of the damaging done to a person from victimization of bullying, by implementing anti-bullying programs in the school systems, and using therapists for all children involved to help the children process their thoughts...
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...fact that technology is ever adapting and changing and the younger generations are adapting and changing with it. It is sometimes easier for students to victimize one another when the anonymity of the computer screen, cell phone, or tablet is there. Something that Accordino and Accordino (2012) found was, “it is critical to provide methods for improving student-parent relationships. A major aspect of a good relationship between middle school students and parents is positive and open communication” (p. 25). This shows that having a face to face relationship with parents is helpful to make students less connected with technology and more connected with a relationship....
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...Effects of Bullying Introduction Having been recognized as an expected yet serious problem in the society, bullying is no longer considered as new problem in the society. Bullying can come in various forms and it can happen to both children and adults. There is a high likelihood that most adults and children each have stories to share which relates to each of their personal experiences either of bullying, or victimization, or witnessing acts of aggression toward others. As perennial as it can get, becoming a victim of bullies has often received the notion of being viewed as a normal part of growing up, or as some have put it, a rite of passage for children and adolescents. In the late 1970s, perspectives began to change as this outlook was looked into by the different researches. It sheds new light on the damaging effects on youths’ growth and development with respect to bullying and victimization. An increase in the awareness of bullying and victimization as well as how it resulted to be a widespread societal problem has been the initial outcome of the innovative research which has encouraged other research on this phenomenon. The beginnings of research on this social issue have been primarily conducted in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries for a number of years. As the research has been shared with other experts the world over, it resulted to the spawning of the exploration on this topic and has reached other countries, including Japan, England, Netherlands,...
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...Written Campaign Proposal: Bullying Brittnay M. Howell ECE 205: Introduction to Child Development Instructor Nadia Hasan August 11, 2014 Written Campaign Proposal: Bullying Bullying has been a problem for world for generations. According to a UCLA psychology study, bullying boosts the social status and popularity of school students, which in turn makes the student want to bully more. The website NOBullying.com states, “20 percent of U.S. students in grades 9-12 reportedly have experienced bullying, while 28 percent of students in grades 6-12 report the same. Experts agree that most incidences of bullying occur during middle school. Most of these students in the study reported name calling as the most prevalent type of bullying, followed by teasing, rumor-spreading, physical incidents, purposeful isolation, threats, belongings being stolen, and sexual harassment. Surprisingly, cyberbullying occurred with the least frequency. 70.6 percent of teens have seen bullying occurring in their schools and approximately 30 percent of young people admit to bullying themselves” (Bullying, 2014). The best way to bring down the percentage of people bullied not only at school but in life is to bring more awareness to the situation through facts, campaigns, and history. Campaign Proposal There are multiple affects that being bullying has to child development. Children who are bullied experience negative...
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...Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance (StopBullying.gov). Students everywhere get bullied for numerous reasons. The school faculty then take it into their hands to resolve the issue. However, not every measure taken is a wise one. Studies show that schools with anti-bullying programs are 1.2 times more likely to experience increased bullying. Anti-bullying programs are a great way to get the message across, but only when they are effective. These effective programs are ones that encourage a more positive approach rather than encouraging more violence. Bullying is often not taken as seriously as it should be. Although, studies show that bullying has decreased over...
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...2013 Bullying Stopbullying.gov defines bullying as “unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involve a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time” (stopbullying.gov). “Traditionally bullying has included overt physical acts (e.g., hitting, shoving) and verbal abuse (e.g., taunting, name-calling) as well as more subtle or indirect actions such as social exclusion and rumor spreading” (Kowalski, Limber S22). There are many types of bullying and how it can be done. In this paper it will show the two types of bullying, the warning signs and effects, and risk factors of bullying. One type of bullying is cyber bullying; “cyber bullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Electronic technology includes devices and equipment such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat and websites” (stopbullying.org). Cyber bullying can be anything from someone posting rumors on a social networking site, spreading embarrassing photos and videos of someone to everyone they know, to someone making a fake profile to get someone to like them in order to make fun of that person (stopbullying.org). Cyber bullying is different than in person bullying because it can be done twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, it can reach a person anywhere, anytime day or night (stopybullying.org). “Cyber bullying messages...
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...Bullying comes in many different forms, from cyber bulling to physical bullying. It’s all wrong and it has to stop. Bullying has a real negative effect on the victim’s life. Those who are constantly bullied can be pushed to the breaking point, where they could end up hurting themselves or others. Why do students bully their class mates? I believe students bully other because they are insecure and lack confidence. They use bullying tactics to impress other students. Bullies thrive on attention they get from their fellow classmates. Their hurtful actions make them feel powerful and popular. Bullies pick on students who they think are weak in physical stature, unpopular with their peers, easily intimated, or discriminated against. Bullying occurs on a regular basis in many schools. It’s usually started by the same person or a ring leader who gets a few other students to join in on the bullying. Unfortunately, the majority of students are spectators who act like the “peanut gallery” laughing out loud or snickering behind the victim’s back. The “peanut gallery” may not directly bully the victim, but by standing on the sidelines giving their attention to the actions they encourage they bully. Even though I am not a bully, I have been part of the “peanut gallery” that makes bullying an even worse situation. The “peanut gallery” are students that can make a positive change to stop bullying. As students, we can take action to stop bullying in our schools and I have some ideas...
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...Bullying comes in many different forms, from cyber bulling to physical bullying. It’s all wrong and it has to stop. Bullying has a real negative effect on the victim’s life. Those who are constantly bullied can be pushed to the breaking point, where they could end up hurting themselves or others. Why do students bully their class mates? I believe students bully other because they are insecure and lack confidence. They use bullying tactics to impress other students. Bullies thrive on attention they get from their fellow classmates. Their hurtful actions make them feel powerful and popular. Bullies pick on students who they think are weak in physical stature, unpopular with their peers, easily intimated, or discriminated against. Bullying occurs on a regular basis in many schools. It’s usually started by the same person or a ring leader who gets a few other students to join in on the bullying. Unfortunately, the majority of students are spectators who act like the “peanut gallery” laughing out loud or snickering behind the victim’s back. The “peanut gallery” may not directly bully the victim, but by standing on the sidelines giving their attention to the actions they encourage they bully. Even though I am not a bully, I have been part of the “peanut gallery” that makes bullying an even worse situation. The “peanut gallery” are students that can make a positive change to stop bullying. As students, we can take action to stop bullying in our schools and I have some ideas...
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