Bullying in High School

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW3

Scholarly Background4

CHAPTER: 2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES6

Rationale of Study7

Statement of the Problem8

Objectives of the study8

Hypotheses8

CHAPTER: 3 RESEARCH METHOD9

Sample9

Instrument9

Data analysis Tool9

Data Analysis Technique10

CHAPTER: 4 EVALUATION11

Validity and Reliability11

Ethical Consideration12

Benefits and Disadvantages of Mixed Method12

References14

Bullying in High School

CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW

Previous Research reveals that there is a considerable tendency in children to bully other children in high schools throughout the world. According to a survey conducted with 600 students from 24 schools in Britain reveals that 37% of children were found to be bullied in their primary and secondary schools. Another survey conducted with 377 children exposed that 18% of the children were bullied during the first year of school, while remaining became the victim of bullying throughout their school life. It is also essential to discuss that Sharp et al. (2000) conducted a survey through questionnaire where 49% students revealed that they were bullied within the school. This suggests that bullying, since its inception, has been growing in the academic institutions throughout the world. However, the reasons of this prevalence are mainly psychological and less social (Reid et al., 2004).

It is also a fact that emergence of new technologies also shaped the way of bullying as well as behaviour of bullying. In other words, trend of bullying through emails and text messages is increasing in schools. Researchers also found that cellular phones are easy medium that many children use in school for bullying their peers (Reid et al., 2004). It is also important to know that there are a significant number of school children who were victimised through chat rooms on the internet. Further, it is also very fortunate that bullying in high schools is now turning into act of extreme violence as there have been some incidents of shooting within the premises of in recent time that took lives of young children (Klein, 2012). This is the most alarming situation for not only educational institutions but also an increasing challenge for law and enforcement agencies. However, the importance of psychological factors cannot be avoided as every act of violence is a result of some kind of psychological imbalance. It is therefore essential to involve psychological therapy in order to counsel students in relation to their increasing bullying behaviours.

Scholarly Background

The core goal of psychology is to help other people by supporting and guiding them so that they can improve their life (Cooper & Roth, 2007). No doubt, bullying can be seen in psychological perspective where children tend to be aggressive due to psychological and emotional problems rather than any physical one. However, the main question arises here is how to help children to overcome their mental problem in terms of bullying. This is only possible with the psychological therapy. Psychological therapy or psychotherapy literally means treatment of the soul or psychological problems. It provides help regarding the disorders in thinking, feeling, experience and action (Palgrave, 2010).

These include mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, behavioural disorders in children and adolescents, addictions and ...