Throughout the year 2015, with these statistics that I have provided above, we can observe that students of all ages become more afraid to speak up than the ones that actually do report their bullying incidents. Overall, with the information that was provided, we can see that school bullying has a negative effect on a student’s mind-set and behavior. School bullying causes major problems in ones life and below I will be mentioning the long-term issues that students often face while being bullied. School bullying, as one can see, is a growing problem and many students in our society has dealt with this at least once in their lives. The psychological effects that school bullying causes is very drastic the more that a student becomes bullied, and soon we will see the long-term problems that this can cause. Over time, many researchers have found that school bullying can ultimately lead to loneliness, depression, adjustment difficulties, and poor academic performance. In addition to the many students having to deal with these psychological, they can also run the risk of somatic aftermaths that include poor appetite, headaches, sleep disturbances, abdominal pain, and fatigue. Based upon the website, Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, children and adolescents who are repetitively bullied may develop internalizing symptoms. For example, in a study of over 7,000 predominantly African-American and Hispanic middle-high school students, many of those victims of bullying reported that they often felt fearful, worried, sad and nervous everyday (“Bully Victims: Psychological and Somatic Aftermaths” 2). With this information being very useful, many researchers have found a study that states
Throughout the year 2015, with these statistics that I have provided above, we can observe that students of all ages become more afraid to speak up than the ones that actually do report their bullying incidents. Overall, with the information that was provided, we can see that school bullying has a negative effect on a student’s mind-set and behavior. School bullying causes major problems in ones life and below I will be mentioning the long-term issues that students often face while being bullied. School bullying, as one can see, is a growing problem and many students in our society has dealt with this at least once in their lives. The psychological effects that school bullying causes is very drastic the more that a student becomes bullied, and soon we will see the long-term problems that this can cause. Over time, many researchers have found that school bullying can ultimately lead to loneliness, depression, adjustment difficulties, and poor academic performance. In addition to the many students having to deal with these psychological, they can also run the risk of somatic aftermaths that include poor appetite, headaches, sleep disturbances, abdominal pain, and fatigue. Based upon the website, Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, children and adolescents who are repetitively bullied may develop internalizing symptoms. For example, in a study of over 7,000 predominantly African-American and Hispanic middle-high school students, many of those victims of bullying reported that they often felt fearful, worried, sad and nervous everyday (“Bully Victims: Psychological and Somatic Aftermaths” 2). With this information being very useful, many researchers have found a study that states