Effects of Teen Bullying

Abstract

In this paper, the researcher aims to determine the effects of teen bullying. However, the researcher starts the paper by focusing on bullying. It covers all aspects of bullying and even though there is a big gap between parents and technology, monitoring their children computer is tricky; however, parents should always keep an eye on their children change of behavior and activities. Thus, technology should be used but not abused as many are doing in present. Our goals are to teach children the understanding for the importance of life and not to give away to any strangers who they might believe are honest and reliable. Cyber bullying can't harm any children if the children don't want to be harm. Furthermore, researcher focuses on the effects of teen bullying and covers all possible aspects where it can be affected.

Table of Contents

Introduction4

Teen Bullying6

Effects of Bullying8

Short-Term10

Long-term Effects11

Bullying in schools12

Conclusion14

References15

Effects of Teen Bullying

Introduction

In accordance with the study of high schools in United State, many people have horrible memories in high school; this is because they had experienced bullying. Currently, all over the world teen age bullying is one of the most fundamental problems faced by students in school. This type of bullying has a more significant impact on teenagers than physical bulling, which they may carry throughout their lives. In addition, with the immense increase in use of Internet among teens, that has increased the cases of cyber bullying. With the development of modern technology, children have more directions to socialize, interact in addition to communicate with each other than ever before. Actually, it has been reported that more than 13,000,000 children, and teenagers aged between 6 and 23, in the U.S, are victims of bullying (Paxton and Moody, 2003).

In addition, if a student harasses one student at a time, this is not included in the definition of bullying. As a result, I accept the rational of victimization based on power inequality and highlight victimization only, and rejected the aspect of relative power in definition. The need of repeated victimization is also relaxed in my analysis, because, in my opinion, a student may harass his/her peers continuously rather than harassing single student on frequent basis. Hence, my definition of bullying is a brief and includes a situation where an executer harms his/her peer, using indirect aggression (rumor-mongering, ostracism, etc.), direct verbal assault (name-calling, threats of violence), and physical methods (hitting, tripping, etc.). This all happens in a context of academic relationship (Olweus, 1999).

Bullying

Dan Olweus (1999) has provided many insights into the notion of bullying. He has defined the concept as “engaging in negative actions against a less powerful person repeatedly and over time” (p.13). Nevertheless, measuring and observing the schoolchild's relative power is complex, and practically the explanation is spherical. It suggests that those students are less powerful who are repeatedly victimized.

As a result, it seems difficult to differentiate this explanation of the concept mill aggression run, and homicide, which a serious form. This explanation has excessive overlap with ...