Bullying
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Bullying - assault or intimidation - represents those acts of violence that are repeated over time, whereby a child, a group of children or other persons use the advantage of their body strength and psychological pressure exerted on individuals and / or weaker children. School assault or work assault is also mentioned by law as being an abuse according to the case. In colloquial speech, bullying describes a form of harassment done by an aggressor that has more body strength and / or more social power than the victim. The victim is sometimes mentioned as target. The harassment may be verbal, physical and / or psychological or emotional. Usually the aggressor were, on their turn victims of the assault, like abused children or adults assaulted by their colleagues. Bullying may appear in any social environment, at school, in church, at work, at home, in neighborhoods, otherwise speaking, where people interact with each other.
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Definition
Bullying is a repetitive act of aggressive behavior, its purpose being to physically or mentally hurt another person. Individuals who resort to aggression are people with a specific behavior, gaining power over another person. The assault includes verbal or non-verbal abuse, physical abuse, exclusion from social activities or constraint. Some abusers take such action to draw attention and / or to gain popularity. Statistics show that bullying can be divided on two categories: direct and indirect bullying - known as social bullying .
- direct bullying involves physical aggression like: pushing, throwing objects to victim, slapping, suffocating, kicking, pulling hair, scratching, biting, pinching, etc.
- social bullying involves threatening and social isolation of the victim. Isolation is realized trough various techniques: gossiping, refusal to socialize with the victim, intimidate people who are interested to approach the victim, criticizing the victim's clothing style or its general style. It also may be included racism, religion, disability, etc. Other forms of indirect bullying, more subtle, may be saying victim's name in a disturbing way, applying the "silence" technique, manipulation, lie, spreading true or false rumors, staring (threatening look), giggling with other people while watching the victim or saying certain words that trigger reactions from a past event.
Bullying's effects
Bullying's victims can suffer for a long time of various emotional and behavioral problems. Bullying can cause loneliness, depression, anxiety, can make a person lose confidence, may lead to increased susceptibility to diseases. Strong trauma, physical or emotional, may deeply affect the future health state, reaching to chronic diseases, as an expression of a disturbance inside the body.
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying (cyber bullying) involves the use of information and communication technologies, such as: e-mail, mobiles, pagers, harmful website, blogs, etc. with the purpose to attack an individual or group of individuals.
Bullying in schools
Bullying in schools can occur in almost any area of school and/or around the school building, although it most often occurs ȋn baths, hallways, school buses, bus stations, in classrooms. School bullying usually involves a group of students who take advantage of one of their colleague isolation and resort to assault in order to obtain passes' loyalty. This kind of bullying is destined to tease and chicane the victim before physical abuse.
In schools the targets often are students considered to be freaks or different from their colleagues. Some children are aggressive because they were isolated and feel a strong need to be part of a group, but they don't have the social abilities to keep their friends. Starting with the principle "when you're miserable you need something more miserable than you", it explains the negative actions of aggressors to the weaker persons.
Many children can't evaluate school violence as being negative or unacceptable as adults do and can take assaults as fun or entertainment. So they don't see any reason to prevent assaults as long they bring a certain level of joy.
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