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 verbalharassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Justifications and rationalizations for such behavior sometimes include differences of class, race, religion,gender, sexuality, appearance, behavior, body language, personality, reputation, lineage, strength, size orability. [2][3] If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing. [4] "Targets" of bullying are also sometimes referred to as "victims" of bullying. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legal definition of bullying, [5] while someU.S. states have laws against it. [6] Bullying consists of four basic types of abuse emotional (sometimes called relational), verbal, physical, and cyber. [7] It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation. Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his or her bullying activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse. [8] Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context ofrankism. A bullying culture can develop in any context in which human beings interact with each other. This includes school, family, the workplace, home, and neighborhoods. In a 2012 study of male adolescent football players, "the strongest predictor was the perception of whether the most influential male in a player's life would approve of the bullying behavior". [9]
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Aggressive behavior may be bullying depending on what happened, how often it happens and who it happens to. Find out what bullying is and what the different types are. You can also learn more about other topics related to bullying.
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems. In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include: An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their powersuch as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularityto control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people. Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
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A definition of bullying Bullying is repeated verbal, physical, social or psychological behaviour that is harmful and involves the misuse of power by an individual or group towards one or more persons. Cyberbullying refers to bullying through information and communication technologies. Bullying can involve humiliation, domination, intimidation, victimisation and all forms of harassment including that based on sex, race, disability, homosexuality or transgender. Bullying of any form or for any reason can have long-term effects on those involved including bystanders. http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/studentsupport/bullying/definition/
Bullying involves an imbalance of power between the bully and the victim, is intentionally harmful and occurs repetitively. (Olweus et al., 1999) Bullying is when you keep picking on someone because you think youre cooler, smarter, stronger or better than them. http://antibullyingsoftware.com/the-definition-of-bullying-for-kids/
Definition: Bullying is intentional aggressive behavior. It can take the form of physical or verbal harassment and involves an imbalance of power (a group of children can gang up on a victim or someone who is physically bigger or more aggressive can intimidate someone else, for instance). Bullying behavior can include teasing, insulting someone (particularly about their weight or height, race, sexuality, religion or other personal traits), shoving, hitting, excluding someone, or gossiping about someone. Bullying can cause a victim to feel upset, afraid, ashamed, embarrassed, and anxious about going to school. It can involve children of any age, including younger elementary grade-schoolers and even kindergarteners. Bullying behavior is frequently repeated unless there is intervention. http://childparenting.about.com/od/schoollearning/g/bullying-definition.htm
NOUN: one habitually cruel to others who are weaker ADJECTIVE: used in phrases like bully for you to express approval or praise especially when the approval or praise is not sincere http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bully
A Research Definition of Bullying Dan Olweus, a Norwegian researcher
A person is being bullied when he/she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons. Negative action is when a person intentionally inflicts injury or discomfort upon another person, through physical contact, through words or in other ways. Note that bullying is both overt and covert behaviors. The following are examples of bullying behaviors. Remember, bullying is a pattern of behavior that is repeated over time against the same person(s) with a noted power differential.
1. Saying hurtful and unpleasant things 2. Making fun of others 3. Using mean and hurtful nicknames 4. Completely overlooking someone 5. Deliberately excluding someone from a group of friends 6. Hitting, kicking, pulling hair, pushing or shutting a person inside 7. Telling lies 8. Spreading false rumors 9. Sending mean notes 10. Trying to get other students to dislike another person
NOTE: The literature suggests not labeling a student as a bully or victim. Instead, call it bullying and/or victim behavior that the student is exhibiting. Direct bullying behaviors (overt) involve behaviors that are observable and that are usually expressed by physical and verbal means. Usually direct bullying involves relatively open attacks on a victim and are in front of your face behaviors.
However, bullying behavior is not always hitting, kicking, teasing, or name calling. Children who bully others may use subversive acts that hurt just as much, but are harder to detect. Examples of indirect bullying are leaving others out on purpose, spreading rumors to destroy anothers reputation or getting others to dislike another person. This is covert bullying or behind your face behaviors.
Bullying begins at an early age with students demonstrating behaviors like biting, pinching or scratching. Teasing and taunting may follow with glaring and staring. Shoving, pushing, and tripping may ensue along with pestering and fighting. Boys may name call, steal lunch money and threaten younger boys while girls may ignore and exclude others or undermine friendships.
Thus, bullying can start small and get out of hand unless there is consistency with what is expected. Everyone should have the same expectations and be on the same page. If someone is being bullied at home, at play and/or at school, the behavior should be reported to a trusted adult. The information should be factual and, if possible, logged in a journal describing the type of bullying, where and when it is happening, who is involved, and how the victim reacts to the bullying. It is important to determine if the victim is provocative. How the information is conveyed is very important.