...The Negative Effects of Bullying in Adolescents & Teens Bullying has become a national problem that has been put in the spotlight in recent years. Each week on the news, we are constantly reminded of tragedies that have struck children, teens, and young adults. The most common result we hear about are suicides resulting from bullying that goes on in schools all over the country. The main stream media often portrays these tragedies as just homosexual students who are bullied, or outted by their peers. All too often bullying is misunderstood. Bullying is often thought of as a bigger person picking on a much smaller person. Bullying is much more than just that. Bullying can come in the form of verbal abuse, such as name calling, belittling or threatening. It can be physical, such as hitting, punching or any form of fighting and physical abuse. Social bullying has also taken form in recent years with the advent of texting and such social media forums as facebook, myspace, twitter, ect. Use of these methods to bully has become more instantaneous than some of the more traditional forms such as physical or verbal. Someone spreading a rumor or facebook can often reach their intended audience much quicker than the first few methods. Another form can be cyber bullying. This can be done through social mediums such as instant messenger and the sending of threating messages via that avenue. (Bullying Statistics) A common misconception about bullying is that it is usually...
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...How Does Bullying Have a Positive and/or a Negative Effect on Mental Health? EDF3610 Education in a Multicultural Society Florida Atlantic University Brooke Garber How Does Bullying Have a Positive and/or a Negative Effect on Mental Health? Issue: Does bullying create any psychological effects? How does bullying have a positive and/or a negative effect on mental health? Position: I do believe that bullying has psychological affects to a person's well being. I believe that bullying has a negative and a positive effect on mental health; therefore, I straddle the fence on this issue. Bullying is a growing epidemic that could lead to suicide, self-harm, and self-hatred. On the other hand, a person that is bullied might be able to build tolerance and stand up to that bully. Some children may possibly “bounce back,” but we hear countless stories of bullying gone to extremes, of teasing that ends tragically. According to Beck (2014), "Research shows that bullying victims have higher rates of self-harm, anxiety, and depression during childhood and adolescence" (Problem section, para. 1). Bullying comes in the form of either verbally assaulting face-to-face, direct hitting, indirect or other means that used to gain superiority. Good and bad comes from bullying, however I believe that bullying is more negative than positive on the effects of mental health. Today forms of bullying of escalated drastically due to the development of technology, which has become known as cyber bullying...
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...Bullying and its physical and emotional effects Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among people, especially school aged children that involves power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Bullying has been around as long as people have been around. How does bullying affect people physically and emotionally? Bullying has clear physical effects. School aged children who were bullied by their peers were almost twice as likely as their non bullied peers to experience physical pain. Physical pain includes headaches and stomachaches, dizziness, bedwetting, and sleep problems. Some people think bullying is just a part of growing up and a way for young people to learn to be strong. It can make you feel lonely, unhappy and scared. It makes you view yourself as something is wrong with you. An individual tries to finds faults in their bodies and search for the thing that is causing the bullying. There may be nothing wrong with the bullying victim, but when you hear negatives things about you over and over may make you believe that it is true. You lose confidence and may not want to go to school anymore. Emotionally not wanting to go to school or work is strong, but the physical pain may be the reason not wanting to go to school. Negative psychology is causing stress...
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...doctoral program. The purpose of developing and reviewing a comparison matrix is to ultimately compare, contrast, and synthesize researchers’ discoveries and conclusions in their works. The comparison matrix in reference, focuses on different facets of bullying in professional environments. The first article, titled, “Individual and situational predictors of workplace bullying: why do perpetrators engage in the bullying of others?” is an examination of the explanation(s) that aggressors tend to intimidate their co-workers. The second article, “Does trait anger, trait anxiety or organizational position moderate the relationship between exposure to negative acts and self-labelling as a victim of workplace bullying?” highlights traits relative to whether or not an individual is indeed a victim of bullying and the correlation between bullying actions. The emphasis is on influences and determinants that may result in a person falling victim to workplace bullying. The third article (unlike the previous two articles) is one selected absolutely by each student for their own matrix. In this case, the third and final article, “Neutralizing workplace bullying: the buffering effects of contextual factors” sheds light on the direct and buffering effects of three contextual factors in work...
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...in schools as well. Many schools in the country have anti-bullying policies. These policies are all different and are implemented in different ways. Most of these policies are not effective though. Anti-bullying policies are not effective against all bullying because school bullying and its effects are still seen, because of the growing use of technology, and because of family influences. Anti-bullying policies are not effective because school bullying cases are still frequently happening in schools. Bullying is a major problem in the world today and it can be seen almost everywhere and it happens every day to people. It most commonly occurs in schools though. Many schools have adopted policies that they use to help prevent bullying in their establishment. However, these policies are not always effective. A study by a University of Texas in Arlington found that students at a school that had an anti-bullying policy, “were 1.2 times more likely” to be bullied than students who attended a school without an anti-bullying policy (Antoniades, pg. 1). This confirms the fact that these policies are not always effective. A school that does have a policy actually is more likely to have bullying. A student is often challenged to bully because they see that they can’t and that urges them break the rules. They want to do it even more then. Bullying still happens in school and some schools seem to have increasing rates of bullying. The policies put in place, “appear to lead to higher rates...
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...Running Head: BULLYING IS THE MOST UNFAIR THING IN THE WORLD Bullying Is The Most Unfair Thing In The World Richard Salvatierra Luis Peredo Roberto Aponte Santa Cruz Cooperative School 3.7 million youths engage in bullying, and more than 3.2 million are victims of “moderate” or “serious” bullying each year. Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior usually among children that involves a real or observed power inequality. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time and usually gets worse. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Bullying is tremendously unfair in the world we live in because it can engage them into violence and other risky behaviors into adulthood, mental health issues and lower their self-esteem. Bullying has come to be one of the most unjust things in our planet because it can engage them into violence and other risky behaviors into adulthood. William E. Copeland lead author of the study and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical said, ‘’Men who were victims were 18.5 times more likely to have had suicidal thoughts in adulthood, compared to the participants who had not been bullied or perpetuators’’(Copeland, 2005) This quote shows how bullying is unfair since it can affect the future of the victim because it can cause them to do unfortunate...
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...The Damages Bullying Has on School Aged Children Brandi GEN 499: General Education Capstone Instructor: Irene Robles-Huerta December 2, 2015 The Damages Bullying Has on School Aged Children Bullying is a widely known and seen epidemic that negatively impacts its victims, and even the person doing the bullying. Bullying is the act that causes harassment, embarrassment, humiliation, intimidation, and physical or emotional trauma, and is present no matter the age, race, gender, religion, or culture. Although society has seen the ever growing epidemic of bullying in school aged children, the argument of the damaging and everlasting psychological effects that bullying has on the victims are not always talked about or analyzed to show how the victimization impacts the child for much longer than just their childhood. This paper will analyze the long term damaging effects that bullying had on its school aged victims, while looking at the implications for therapists treating the victims, the therapeutic aspects related to bullying, and how the use of therapy can lessen the long term effects that bullying will have on the bullies and their victims. Although, there may not be a complete solution to bullying itself, there is a solution that will limit some of the damaging done to a person from victimization of bullying, by implementing anti-bullying programs in the school systems, and using therapists for all children involved to help the children process their thoughts...
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...Hayley Tripp 3rd hour essay Bullying 51215 My topic is over bullying, and how it causes; long term, and short term effects on a human's life. Bullying has always been a problem in today's world. No matter how old, or young you are, it happens. You could be the victim, or you could be the suspect, or the you could be the bully. Bullying can affect the human nature in a lot of ways. Bullying causes depression, and makes you miserable. Some people may not have the guts to get out of bed, to go to school; either because they are too scared, or they are tired of being judged. It causes people to hide at home, and make them afraid to be themselves in public. They will try their hardest to impress, but to them it never will seem good enough. They would have a feeling of not wanting to be alive, they would feel done with everything; they would eventually give up all the way, and be gone for good. Bullying will cause a negative atmosphere, and will make society a bad place. A negative atmosphere is a place nobody wants to live in. It'll eventually bring you, and others around you down, as well. Basically, no one wants a friend that hurts others. A negative atmosphere will never be a fun place to live in...
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...Negative effects of Friendship Speech Though there are many positive aspects of friendship there are several potential negative effects of having friendships that are not 100% genuine. The first and perhaps most obvious negative effect of friendship is the risk of having ‘false’ or ‘bad’ friends. There are several signs of a potential bad friend including: belittling your accomplishments, ignoring you and unhealthy competition between you and your friend. There are 6 types of ‘bad friend’: the promise- breaker, the double-crosser, the self-absorbed, the discloser, the competitor and the fault finder. Having any one of these types of friends in your life can have a strong negative impact. The second effect of having a bad friendship is the potential for peer pressure to occur. Peer pressure is caused by the social desire to fit in and be accepted by peers, that forces a person to change their personal habits and personality.The effect of this pressure, in turn, can cause a group mentality. Which then continues the cycle. What causes this pressure is the desire to define normalcy. This may have the effect of your friends pressuring you into actions that you would not normally engage in. These activities can range from trivial things like: a change of hairstyle to more dangerous acts like: drug use. Examples of activities that the influencing peer pressure party may want you to involve yourself in include: * Encouraging you to gossip about your other friends * To gamble...
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...Introduction Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. There are four kinds of bullying in school, in which all of them is very harmful; it is Physical, Verbal, Covert, and cyber bullying Theodore Roosevelt once quoted, “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.” and this quotation made by the former US president applies to everything in life. People should not commit to just knowing that something is right; they have to commit to it fully and do exactly what is right. People know that they sometimes do wrong but what they really need to do is treat people with respect, think before they commit to their actions and understand that sometimes life doesn’t offer the second chances that they often take for granted. Knowing what is right, just like knowing that people should be treated right and be respected is nonsense if you are mistreating and disrespecting other people. People should learn how to incorporate truth in their lives and they should learn to accept what is right and live with it, so that we can live in a...
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...Social Media ENG Sandy Davis Social Media According to a study by Pew Research Internet Project, “Some 73% of online adults now use a social networking site of some kind. Facebook is the dominant social networking platform in the number of users, but a striking number of users are now diversifying onto other platforms. Some 42% of online adults now use multiple social networking sites”.(Social Media Update 2013) Even though social media is believed to have a negative effect on our culture, it has many positive benefits as well. How social media is changing healthcare, Healthcare facilities and providers have started to move in the direction of social media, they are coordinating these tools with their marketing and patient commitment. Healthcare facilities and health care providers that include physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physical therapists, have a plethora of options when it comes to developing a presence online. They have the option of starting a blog or joining networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. There are also online communities that are solely for the use of healthcare providers. Social media allows patients to interact with physicians and healthcare workers; it makes it possible for patients to be more informed when it applies to their healthcare procedures. Healthcare companies can take advantage of social media by creating surveys and blogs where patients can share their opinions and experiences Patients are taking a more active role in...
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...Bullying is now becoming a major and current issue across the U.S, especially in the education system. It’s messing with student's academic behavior, and normal behavior either during school or afterschool. The mental, and physical stability of teens is being affected negatively in many different types of ways because of bullying becoming an issue. One of the main reasons of why bullying is affecting teens is because of the different ways the bully is carrying out the action. Another aspect affecting teens is the mental and emotional instability causing bullies to mess with teen’s heads. The last main issue is the different types of side effects that comes out of bullying, for instance depression, social anxiety, and etc. which all have a high...
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...What is bullying. Anyone familiar with aggressive behavior should agree that aggressive behavior by children is considered an important a social behavioral problem all across the U.S and needs to be addressed inside and outside the school environment. Through research, the prevention of such behavior has shed light to this specific type of aggressive behavior and shifted researchers thinking and understanding of this bullying behavior. Between 2000 to present, there have been well over 600 peer-reviewed articles on bullying, as opposed to the past, between 1980-2009, 190 peer-reviewed articles. Bullying is characterized as aggressive behavior and violent behavior more prevalent in schools, where the perpetrator in some capacity attempts...
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...periods in a person life are without a doubt their school years. Bullying has been an extreme issue all around the world for many years to present. Bullying is a serious problem in schools around the world, and bullying causes negative effects on the victim being bullied. In this essay, I will confirm the major types of bullying and the causes it has on the victim. Bullying causes the victim to have low self-esteem, depression, health problems, becoming anti-social people, and having broken hearts. Countless people have confessed to being bullied or acting like bullies themselves. There are four major types of bullying around in the school: cyber bullying, verbal bullying, physical bullying, and rational bullying. Bullying is an unsolicited and hostile action or behavior that affects many children and teenagers. It may include actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group or purpose based upon spiritual views, appearance, economic status, or social status. Bullying can cause severe emotional, physical, and legal problems both in the victim and the aggressor. There have been many cases of suicide among children and teenagers because of bullying. Cyber bullying is one of the most common and new forms of bullying since technology have changed. We have social networks and blogs where a lot of the bullying takes place. Cyber bullying is treating or offending a person with the help of computer-generated...
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...December 20, 2012 HCA/250 Bullying in the workplace Journal review assignment Bullying in the workplace Journal review assignment Workplace bullying is when an individual repeatedly, harms the mental health of another person or several by mistreating them in more than one form of abuse. It is the need of an individual to have control over another targeting them, conducting methods finding the right timing and location to intimidate. It can escalate to having more than one person bullying or a group of bullies, either voluntarily or coerced in to mistreating another co-worker. Bullying is associated with negative job satisfaction and retention. It can have horrible effects on a person’s health. Bullying can be a result of current economic circumstances that can lead to hostility and violence. Bullying differs from other violence because it is repeated over months at a time, in contrast to other forms of violence that can be isolated incidents. The journal article shows substantial research that bullying in the workplace has severe negative effects on the health and well-being of those individuals who are targeted by the perpetrators. These effects can put organizations in to economic strains. There are occupational health nurses that can intervene to help the employees and make the company more profitable by taking educational programs and counseling on bullying for those individuals that have experienced bullying and those who want to help. Bullying should not be accepted...
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