A survey was taking with 14-16-year-old adolescents taking part in a School Health Promotion Study dealing with depression, eating disorders, anxiety and more. Nine percent of girls and seventeen percent of boys were bullied on a weekly basis (Kaltiala-Heno, Rimpela, & Rantanen, 2000). The most frequent symptoms of experiencing bullying were depression, anxiety, and psychosomatic symptoms. Those that were and are considered bullies either have drinking problems or substance abuse problems. In other words, their reason for bullying, to them, is a valid reason. They believe that it is okay for them to blame the substance or alcohol abuse, but it is not the abuse that is forming or implementing the bullying. It is the person, physically. The thought, the formation, the appliance is all them. The most common affects for females were eating disorders. They became conscious of how they looked, even if this wasn’t the purpose of the bully. The purpose was for them to feel …show more content…
For the ones being bullied, it is easier because they do not have to see their victims. They do not have to face them, so this makes them feel bigger than what they really are. The book The Evolution of Bullying to Cyber Bullying quotes, “New technologies provide bullies with new tools to hurt students in old way” (Hendricks, Lumadue, &Waller, 2012). Bullying now is the same form of bullying from decades ago, just with better technology and more chances of running away with what they have done. The evolution of electronics has become a dominant platform for cyber bullying. Bullying has made the rate of homicides and suicides that relate or deal with cyber bullying more