SCHOOL BULLYING

School Bullying

[Name of College]

Introduction

The phenomenon of bullying is increasingly common among young people. The victims and perpetrators are often classmates, who were the focus of acts of serious physical and psychological violence. The acts of bullying in schools have also been recorded several times on media. The fact is that schools are appearing more often in the media and this section of education is of serious concern to all members of the educational community. Indeed, violence in schools seems to have a great capacity to attract public attention which is an alarming situation for overall society. The longer the bullying persists the more difficult is to find a solution and the more reliable the physical or mental impairment of the affected children and adults. This paper will focus on the bullying at school, for example, the bullying of teachers towards pupils and vice versa.

Literature Review

Impacts of Bullying

Bullying affects the victim first and often its psychological effects last long. Student rarely inform teacher or their parents about what is happening with them. The consequences affect the entire personality of the victim in terms of loss of confidence, concentration problems and insomnia. Depressive tendencies and passivity also developed in the personality of the victim (McGarth, 2006). Bullying also decrease the level of motivation towards learning and mostly students starts to avoid school. The following damages may be caused due to bullying at school:

Physical injury

Psychological damage (e.g., destruction of self-consciousness)

Psychosomatic reactions (e.g., loss of appetite, abdominal pain, nightmares, insomnia)

Other reactions (e.g., lack of concentration, performance decline, missing days due to "sick days" or truancy, withdrawal from social relationships, anxiety, depression, suicide attempts to suicide or consummated)

Possible signs and behaviors of bullying

The possible signs of bullying and behaviors are the following:

Students start avoiding school

They want to be driven to school

Their school performance declines

They lose money (the money is being blackmailed by the perpetrators)

They cannot or will not give a convincing explanation for their behavior

They start to stutter

They commit a suicide attempt (often considered as the only way to escape from being bullied) (McGarth, 2006)

Personality traits in victims and perpetrators

Basically bullying is not an individual problem of the victims or perpetrators but a structural phenomenon of a group, which has escalated because no timely and adequate interventions were performed in the past as argues by Olweus (1993). However, certain personality traits seem to support the victims of bullying: students may be affected or are adapted anxious and develop low self-esteem. Also striking or different ...