Bullying

Bullying 

Definition of Bullying 

Bullying is a physical or verbal attack and undesired conduct among school-age children. It is repetitive behaviour. Bullying may cause severe, permanent problems to both kids who are bullied and who bully others. The kids who bully repeatedly use elite social status over the victim to exercise power. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people. Individual bullying is usually delineated by a person behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person. Bullying encompasses activities such as making threats, spreading rumours, attacking someone physically or verbally, and barring someone from a group on purpose. Bullying is repetitive behaviour and has the potential to happen more than once. Bullying can happen  in schools, at home, at work, in online social spaces.

Types of Bullying

The individual bullying can be divided into four types

Physical Bullying: 

Physical bullying involves hurting someone's body or damaging their possessions. Stealing, shoving, hitting, fighting, and destroying property are all types of physical bullying. Often, bullying does not start with physical bullying. It will begin in a different form and later progress to physical violence. Sometimes, young adults will target and antagonise a companion because of some adolescent prejudice. They tease and taunt the victim to embarrass him in front of others, which ends up in physical bullying.

Verbal Bullying: 

Saying or writing the offensive thing that can hurt other's feelings falls under verbal bullying. It includes teasing, name-calling, inappropriate sexual comments, Taunting, Threatening to cause harm. Verbal bullying is prevalent in both genders, boys, and girls: girls mostly use verbal bullying as well as social segregation techniques, to command, control other individuals, and show their superiority and power.

Relational Bullying: 

Relational bullying, also known as social bullying, focuses on banning someone from a peer group, usually through verbal threats, spreading rumours, and other forms of threatening.  Relational bullying is prevalent amongst youth, but particularly upon girls. Physical bullying is evident, whereas relational bullying is not apparent and can continue for a long time without being noticed.

Cyber Bullying: 

Cyberbullying happens through the use of technology by sending instant messaging or chat, text messages, email, and social networking sites or forums to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person.

Where and When Bullying Happens:

Mostly, bullying happens during or after school hours. While the bullying, which is mostly reported, occurs in the school premises, most incidents of bullying occur in places like on the playground or the bus. It can likewise happen to head out to or from school, in the adolescent's neighbourhood, or on the Internet.

Effects of Bullying

Bullying may have different effects on differentp people, but we will describe here some common effects…

Ø  It makes the victim feel guilty like it is his/her fault. The victim starts feeling hopeless and alone.

Ø  Feels unfit in with the cool group,  depressed and rejected by your friends and other groups of people

Ø  The person being bullied feels unsafe, afraid, confused, and stressed out