Victimisation

One problem that is ever evolving and continuously effects young adolescence in school is bullying. Bullying can be defined as an activity in which someone intentionally participates in either physically or emotionally harming a peer through any medium; such as words, actions, or technology. By applying this definition to the term bullying, it makes sense that almost every teenager in America can identify a time when they were bullied, when they bullied someone else, or a time when they saw a…

Bullying can have many effects on some people. Some people can not let it bother them at all, others really get affected by it. Bullying can cause someone to harm themselves and might take it as far as killing their self. Even the bully can have some pain from it or it might benefit them and make them feel better about them self. Bullying is a horrible thing it can cause depression for both the bully and the person getting bullied, the people being the bully might have some at home problems and…

Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Platforms of cyberbullying include, but are not limited to, devices and equipment such as mobile phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication tools being social media sites, text messages, online chats, and websites (“What is Cyberbullying”, n.d., para. 1). The spectrum of cyberbullying actions is very wide and famous examples include harassment, rumour spreading, disclosure of personal information of others…

Bullying is a terrible thing that commonly happens in our society. There have been many anti-bullying campaigns. However, bullying seems to be never ending. If human beings still existed, bullying would still occur. At some point everyone has found themselves being bullied, which all the time causes complications. People should be ashamed of bullying because it hurts someone to a serious point, especially women. Bullying comes in many forms. Verbal and physical. Bullying physically might sound…

Cyberbullying takes place when individual harassment or damage is achieved in a deliberate, continual and an aggressive manner by means of using electronic communications via social media sites and messaging applications, on computers and handheld devices. Cyberbullying is commonly categorised under 8 different types. The first type is impersonation of an individual upon conveying or posting untrue or nasty messages online is one such type. Secondly, when the sending of online malicious messages…

Definition of Bullying We can define bullying as an aggressive behavior that usually addresses so called the ‘victim’ who can not easily defend him or herself (Olweus,1999). The victim is who experiences verbal, behavioral, physical or relational attacks and also insecurity and also many kinds of psychological problems like depression and anxiety (for meta-analyses, see Card, 2003; Hawker & Boulton, 2003). Studies has shown that if a child experiences the victim position for so long, the…

Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year. Next, over 4,400 people commit suicide each year because they are victims of bullying. If people would stop bullying in the world then it will improve the lives of others. Sometimes, it might improve also the lives of others or not based on the way you say it to someone. Everyone would be happier and love the world more if bullying was taken down so much or just taken away all together. Bullying is not a good thing because it makes…

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 2 Causes of Bullying 3 Bullies 4 Victims 5 Kinds of Bullying 6 The Effects of Bullying 9 School’s Responsibility 10 Parent’s Responsibility 11 Legal Acts to Avoid Bullying 12 Stop Bullying 13 Bullying Statistics 14 List of Social Networking Sites 15 Conclusion and Recommendations 17 Introduction Bullying conduct has become one of the most controversial…

Hazing is defined as an abusive, often humiliating form of initiation into or affiliation with a group, including: Any willful action taken or situation created which recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health of another. There are various types of hazing; subtle, harassment and violent. It is important to analyze the psychological and social aspects of hazing, more importantly it is vital that we explore what we can do to prevent hazing. Subtle hazing is defined as…

2.3 FORMS OF BULLYING There are different types of bullying and different behaviours that are considered as bullying. Olweus (1993) split bullying into two types, direct and indirect. Direct bullying involves verbal and physical attacks. Purposeful and unnecessary physical attacks are generally recognized as bullying. Physical bullying comprises aggressive acts such as kicking, hitting, tripping or the destruction of a person’s property whilst verbal bullying consist name calling, insults,…