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When bullying behaviors are gender-related, the problem becomes even more complex and potentially harmful to victims. For instance, Popp and Peguero (2014) report that, "School bullying has detrimental consequences for its victims, including undermining students' educational outcomes. Furthermore, gender has been shown to play a significant role in determining the type of bullying victimization experienced and educational outcomes" (p. 843). The results of a study by Meyer (2008) indicate that gender-related bullying can be sufficiently insidious to avoid detection by teachers and administrators but which can have an enormous negative impact on those targeted, including diminished academic performance, increased absenteeism, substance abuse problems, depression and even suicidal behaviors. Gendered harassment is defined by Meyer (2008) as being "any behavior that acts to assert the boundaries of traditional gender norms: heterosexual masculinity and femininity"; these behaviors can include "(hetero)sexual harassment, homophobic harassment, and harassment for gender non-conformity (or transphobic harassment)" (p. 34). Although gendered harassment is similar to bullying, it assumes some different forms, but these may subsume some types of bullying behaviors including violence (Meyer, 2008). Moreover, the negative effects of gender-related bullying can even be more severe than other types of bullying behaviors As Meyer concludes, "Students who are targets of sexual and homophobic harassment have been identified as being at even greater risk for these harmful behaviors and leaving school" (p. 34).
While many victims of gender-related bullying may opt to simply leave school altogether or pursue an alternative homeschooled curriculum, others may elect to take more drastic actions to resolve the conflict by either killing their tormentors or taking their own lives, and both of these types of undesirable outcomes have become increasingly frequent in recent years. In the majority of cases, however, it is reasonable to posit the victims of gender-related bullying and harassment simply "suffer in silence" (due in large part to the unwritten but ubiquitous "schoolyard code" that prohibits "snitching") until they can graduate and escape their tormentors. In fact, nearly two-thirds (64%) of American students who are victims of bullying do not report the incidents (Petrosina, Guckenburg, DeVoe, & Hanson, 2010). A study of the specific characteristics of bullying victimization that have been shown to prompt higher levels of reporting among bullying victims include incidents that involved physical injuries, the destruction of property, actual physical contact (e.g., shoving or pushing), higher frequency levels of bullying, bullying occurring in more than one location, and, interestingly, at least one bullying incident occurring on a school bus (Petrosina, 2010).
As noted above, gender-related bullying may assume some forms that are difficult to detect but in many cases they are simply ignored by educators despite the demonstrated negative effects these behaviors can have…
Cyber Bullying One definition of Cyber bullying is that it is the employment of technology by a person to intimidate, upset, harass, demean and humiliate another person. Targets chosen by cyber bullies are no different from those picked by face-to-face bullies. These targets share characteristics such as being lonely or loners, vulnerable, socially uncomfortable, and hence mostly isolated. Some bullies choose to remain anonymous so as to escape accountability for their
More and more children are becoming victims of cyberbullying with an estimated range of between 19% and 42% being bullied online at least one time (Wolak, Mitchell & Finkelhor, 2006). Reports also indicate that children who participated in traditional bullying are becoming increasingly more involved in cyberbullying; reflecting very high percentages of those children acting as cyber bullies (Kowalski & Limber, 2007). In a recent study of 177 seventh grade
Peters suggests that a no-nonsense and zero-tolerance approach to implicit tolerance and emphasizes the need to pursue complaints as far up the school administration chain of command as necessary to achieve results. Similarly, Peters confirms the conclusions of other researchers and experts in the field of school psychology that bullying affects victims profoundly and presents specific problems with regard to maintaining high academic performance and also with respect to
For the children who were being bullied, there were no differences by race found for where it occurred, or the likelihood of getting help (2008). However, the researchers found a dramatic difference by race for racist name-calling with one-half of the Asian students who were bulled, but none of the bullied white students, experiencing name-calling in association to their skin color or ethnicity (2008). However, in a study conducted by
bullying has become life threatening for most of the people, bullying prevention programs should be implemented to control and ultimately eliminate bullying from our society. Definition of Bullying: (Wright, 2004). "Because the bullying has become life threatening for most of the people, bullying prevention programs should be implemented to control and ultimately eliminate bullying from our society." Scope of paper: How's: Why's: What's: Who's: Impact: Scope of Bullying Problem: (University of Colorado, 2012); (Skiba & Fontanini, n.d.). Worldwide: (University
Bullying The incidents of April 20, 1999 from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado put bullying into a new perspective. Two students, Dylan Klebold and Ryan Harris, who were, for all intents, intelligent and well adjusted went on a killing spree. They killed and injured several members of the school including a teacher. (Rosenberg, 2000) Then they turned the guns on themselves. Their plans were grandiose. After the massacre, they intended