Types of Bullying

A wide range of behaviours have been reported as bullying, including theft. Defining an act as bullying depends on it being intentional, persistent, involving an imbalance of power and because of the negative effect on the victim.

Name calling

Name calling was the most prevalent form of bullying identified in many studies, but an OfStEd report on effective action against bullying in secondary schools reminds us that verbal bullying can often carry a strong hint of violence. The use of modern technology means that this kind of verbal bullying can extend beyond the school day and invade life at home.

Physical bullying

There was a slight increase in physical bullying with age in boys in the Coram study (2003). Sometimes homophobic bullying was said to involve quite serious physical bullying. Older girls reported sexualised bullying with unwanted touching more than did boys.

In an extensive study of over 7000 children, Smith (2000) reported that there is a shift from age eight to sixteen from physical bullying to relational bulling, but that boys experience more physical bullying than girls. Theft can be included in this category as it often involved threats or actual violence.

Social isolation

Behaviour leading to social isolation was reported to be common throughout the age groups, but especially for younger children. This included spreading gossip and ignoring and can be especially difficult to identify.

Homophobic bullying

This is directed towards young people who are openly gay, bisexual, are perceived as gay, or show characteristics often associated with the opposite gender. When heterosexual young people are subject to homophobic bullying they can be less reluctant to report it, as this may reinforce the stereotypical way that they are already viewed by others. The bullying is often verbal, but can also be physical, and in serious cases constitutes assault, leading to investigation by the police. Harassment of a homophobic nature tends to be carried out by groups of people, and occurs often, even daily. Sexual name calling begins in the primary school, although homophobic bullying overall is more common in secondary aged students.

Cyber bullying

This is the latest form of abuse, and as new technologies develop, new forms emerge, such as text and e-mail messaging, and most recently malicious postings on websites. In the Coram study in 2003 cyber bullying was reported by fewer than 5% of pupils but anecdotal evidence suggests the incidence is increasing.

In a survey by National Children's Homes and Tesco mobile in 2005, 20% of young people

aged 11 to 19 years said they had been bullied or received a threat by e-mail, internet chat room or text message.

Racist bullying

This is one area where schools are required to keep statistics about incidents. It is bullying directed at individuals of a certain race, culture or group. For children from ethnic minorities, bullying is more prevalent with 25% of the 2003 Coram study reporting being severely bullied, and 33% of the black and Asian students in Year 8 being bullied this term, more than that reported by white groups (26%). 20% of Year 5 pupils had been called racist names compared with 6% in Year 8 so the nature of the bullying probably changes with age.

Sources: http://education.staffordshire.gov.uk

*By: Syaziela

WHAT & WHY?

What is bullying?

Bullying is when someone keeps doing or saying things to have power over another person.

Some of the ways they bully other people are by: calling them names, saying or writing nasty things about them, leaving them out of activities, not talking to them, threatening them, making them feel uncomfortable or scared, taking or damaging their things, hitting or kicking them, or making them do things they don't want to do. Have any of these things happened to you? Have you done any of these things to someone else? Really, bullying is wrong behaviour which makes the person being bullied feel afraid or uncomfortable.

Why do some people bully?

There are a lot of reasons why some people bully. They may see it as a way of being popular, or making themselves look tough and in charge. Some bullies do it to get attention or things, or to make other people afraid of them. Others might be jealous of the person they are bullying. They may be being bullied themselves. Some bullies may not even understand how wrong their behaviour is and how it makes the person being bullied feel.

Why are some young people bullied?

Some young people are bullied for no particular reason, but sometimes it's because they are different in some way - perhaps it's the colour of their skin, the way they talk, their size or their name. Sometimes young people are bullied because they look like they won't stand up for themselves.

Why is bullying harmful?

Some people think bullying is just part of growing up and a way for young people to learn to stick up for themselves. But bullying can make young people feel lonely, unhappy and frightened. It makes them feel unsafe and think there must be something wrong with them. They lose confidence and may not want to go to school any more. It may make them sick.

Sources: www.nobully.org

*By: Syaziela

WHO IS THE BULLY & THE VICTIMS?

Bullying always happen to students from upper secondary level of four, five and six that have large gave body, robust, and high they are involving a group of students and have a same age. Bullying is one way to lose feeling bored in school. The success of bullying students, will show their strength, power, and not easily to fear with anything.

Otherwise, victims of bullying are students who are often be a victims, its was a students who are in lower secondary level one, two, three, and primary school student. Beside that student who have a small gave and always often praised by teachers will be targeted by bully and also new student at school.

during the case bully happens. The article show that 16 years old boy student was dead because bullying.its sacrifice the lives of the cases have occurred in the royal military college that caused the death of a student Mohamad Naim Mustaqim 16 years old after loss of consciousness after the sentence imposed by the push-ups and he was kicked by his friend in a room at the school early morning on 24 June 2010.

Mohamad Naim Mustaqim was the eldest son who comes from a hard family but have an excellent academic results and he going in the royal military college at February 2010, but at 10:45 pm 23 June 2010, victims who do push-ups and then kicked in the stomach caused by his victims who tried to stand up and go unstable and then fell and his head hitting the floor before unconsciousness.

Are woman involved in act of bullying?

Many consider the act of bullying are only involved by boys, however it is wrong because female studentsa also involved in this incident. Despite the relatively small percentage, but these things can lead to serious acts if not confined. Bulying among girl usually involves physical teasing. For example if the female student was fat and have a dark skin they will use as a target for ridicule. However the act of bullying is not so violent as boys.

*By: Hartini

VICTIM CONFESSION BULLY

MALE STUDENT

Bullying secondary students one including requested become “laundress senior student uniform” religion in schools hostel full including in woman students is one normal matter, that former student confession that ever become victim bully. "We would kicked about and will be threatened if do not want teacher know offences committed," said Al-Mashoor Lelaki Pulau Pinang Religious National Secondary Schools's former student, Khairol Ikram Salamat. According To Khairol one of victim and the friends will be threatened by senior students to close secret on offence that they doing. "Our time the new form one, so when has done offence albeit small, senior students will threaten to report to the discipline teacher and effect would fare even worse if it reach to parents knowledge. "So us given choice of whether want to encounter with discipline. symptom bully in school do not just involving normal daily school on the other hand also happens against school religion however might be considered remote because the number that small. "Actually in religious school also happen case bully, the situation same only in any school. It like a practice especially to older student for bullying junior student especially in orientation week.

FEMALE STUDENT

"Almost my four months so I senior sisters, I need to wash clothes they every day."Not one, on the other hand three people in a time... we such as distributed to small groups, new student every one will get three people 'foster sister' and we need serve to them," he said. However clear him activity on managed to halted when one of from the partner sound off to the family. "All our fear want complaining to anyone because threatened by senior and will receive action more if matter oleaking.

*By: Suraya

Means of Bullying ?

Means the rough bully the weak act with the intention or purpose to show their strength. Indirectly, its making them vulnerable to comply with respect the strong. There are other purposes that says, bullying means aggressive behavior in the form of physical or psychological abuse was committed by the victim and it is aimed at not feeling comfortable, safe, peaceful and harmonious. Overall, the act of bullying is not good and can make people become victims and can cause discomfort to other people.

Cases of bullying among students has long been the case, and it was never ends. more accurately the case of bullying usually involves seniors vs. junior students. Such cases usually occur in school that the student hostel from Form 1 to Form 5, but there are also cases of bullying that occur in schools daily. cases of bullying very significant because of the age gap than that boarding school grades 4 and 5 only, and is more severe symptoms of boarding schools that have boy students.

Bully usually consists of students who come from dysfunctional families, where it caused some negative response without realizing it, the tendency of cases of bullying that occur sometimes due to bullying of students who felt that other students know that more people will turn away from them.

They feel they always often criticized and not taken serious by the teachers, and students are placed in the same group of students to their academic status, and is relatively problematic and anti-social behavior. So many of them will form groups that will upset their attitudes towards the aggressive, anti-social, did not emphasize education, and fear of criminal activity.

*By: Hartini

SAY 'NO' TO BULLY

Bullying is an intentional act of aggression, based on an imbalance of power that is meant to harm a victim either physically or psychologically. Bullies usually operate alone or in small groups and choose to victimize individuals who they perceive as vulnerable.

Bullying is an intimidation of weaker person: the process of intimidating or mistreating someone weaker or in a more vulnerable situation (MSN Encarta).

Bullying is an unreasonable and inappropriate workplace behavior includes bullying, which intimidates, offends, degrades, insults or humiliates an employee, possibly in front of co-workers, clients or customers and which includes physical or psychological behavior (Law Society of NSW).

Bullying: persistent, offensive, abusive, intimidating or insulting behavior, abuse of power or unfair penal sanctions which makes the recipient feel upset, threatened, humiliated or vulnerable, which undermines their self-confidence and which may cause them to suffer stress (MSF Union).

Bullying: Any incident, in which a person is abused, threatened or assaulted in circumstances relating to their work. These behaviors would originate from customers, co-workers at any level of the organization. This definition would include all forms or harassment, bullying, intimidation, physical threats/assaults, robbery and other intrusive behaviors (International Labor Organization).

A person is bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and he or she has difficulty defending himself or herself. This definition includes three important components:

• Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves unwanted, negative actions.
• Bullying involves a pattern of behavior repeated over time.
• Bullying involves an imbalance of power or strength.

Types of Bullying

Bullying can take on many forms. Students are asked if they have been bullied in any of these nine ways:

1. Verbal bullying including derogatory comments and bad names.
2. Bullying through social exclusion or isolation.
3. Physical bullying such as hitting, kicking, shoving, and spitting.
4. Bullying through lies and false rumors.
5. Having money or other things taken or damaged by students who bully.
6. Being threatened or being forced to do things by students who bully.
7. Racial bullying.
8. Sexual bullying.
9. Cyber bullying (via cell phone or Internet).

Why Students Bully?

Information about bullying suggests that there are three interrelated reasons why students bully.

1. Students who bully have strong needs for power and (negative) dominance.
2. Students who bully find satisfaction in causing injury and suffering to other
students.
3. Students who bully are often rewarded in some way for their behavior with
material or psychological rewards.

Sources: Olweus, creator of the Olweus Bullying Prevention program and his book, Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do.

*By: Nursazella

BULLYING?

Bullying is a form of abuse. It comprises repeated acts over time that involves a real or perceived imbalance of power with the more powerful individual or group abusing those who are less powerful.[2] The power imbalance may be social power and/or physical power. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a target.

Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal and physical. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as psychological manipulation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. Although the UK currently has no legal definition of bullying,[3] some US states have laws against it.[4]

Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse.[5] Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rankism.

Bullying can occur in any context in which human beings interact with each other. This includes school, church, the workplace, home and neighborhoods. It is even a common push factor in migration. Bullying can exist between social groups, social classes and even between countries (see Jingoism).

Bullying is an act of repeated aggressive behavior in order to intentionally hurt another person, physically or mentally. Bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person.[6]

Norwegian researcher Dan Olweus defines bullying as when a person is

"exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons." He defines negative action as "when a person intentionally inflicts injury or discomfort upon another person, through physical contact, through words or in other ways".[7]

*Sources: Wikipedia.org

*By: Syaziela

Dictionary:bul·ly1 (bʊl'ē)

n., pl., -lies.

A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.

A hired ruffian; a thug.

A pimp.

Archaic. A fine person.

Archaic. A sweetheart.

v., -lied, -ly·ing, -lies.

v.tr.

To treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner. See synonyms at intimidate.

To make (one's way) aggressively.

v.intr.

To behave like a bully.

To force one's way aggressively or by intimidation: "They bully into line at the gas pump" (Martin Gottfried).

adj.

Excellent; splendid: did a bully job of persuading the members.

interj.

Used to express approval: Bully for you!

[Possibly from Middle Dutch boele, sweetheart, probably alteration of broeder, brother.]

*Sources: Answers.com

*By: Syaziela

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