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  1. Bullying Prevention in Adolescence: Solutions and New Challenges from the Past Decade

    Bullying is a pervasive global problem that has attracted researchers' attention for five decades. It is typically defined as repeated, intentional hurting of a person who is weaker or less powerful than the perpetrator(s) (e.g., Olweus, 1978; Salmivalli & Peets, 2018).Bullying can be direct, such as physical or verbal attacks, indirect (also referred to as relational bullying), such as ...

  2. Bullying in schools: the state of knowledge and effective interventions

    Abstract. During the school years, bullying is one of the most common expressions of violence in the peer context. Research on bullying started more than forty years ago, when the phenomenon was defined as 'aggressive, intentional acts carried out by a group or an individual repeatedly and over time against a victim who cannot easily defend him- or herself'.

  3. Full article: Understanding bullying from young people's perspectives

    Introduction. With its negative consequences for wellbeing, bullying is a major public health concern affecting the lives of many children and adolescents (Holt et al. 2014; Liu et al. 2014 ). Bullying can take many different forms and include aggressive behaviours that are physical, verbal or psychological in nature (Wang, Iannotti, and Nansel ...

  4. Bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a

    To examine recent trends in bullying and mental health problems among adolescents and the association between them. A questionnaire measuring mental health problems, bullying at school, socio-economic status, and the school environment was distributed to all secondary school students aged 15 (school-year 9) and 18 (school-year 11) in Stockholm during 2014, 2018, and 2020 (n = 32,722).

  5. Preventing Bullying: Consequences, Prevention, and Intervention

    Bullying is considered to be a significant public health problem with both short- and long-term physical and social-emotional consequences for youth. A large body of research indicates that youth who have been bullied are at increased risk of subsequent mental, emotional, health, and behavioral problems, especially internalizing problems, such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and ...

  6. Bullying among adolescents: The role of skills

    1 Introduction. Psychologists have defined a bullying victim as a person that is repeatedly and intentionally exposed to injury or discomfort by others, with the harassment potentially triggered by violent contact, insulting, communicating private or inaccurate information, and other unpleasant gestures like the exclusion from a group (Olweus ()).This explains why this aggressive behavior ...

  7. Bullying fosters interpersonal distrust and degrades adolescent mental

    To accomplish this goal, we examined how interpersonal distrust in middle adolescence (age 14 years) mediated the effects of bullying in late childhood (age 11 years) on subsequent mental health ...

  8. The long-term effects of being bullied or a bully in adolescence on

    The aim is to examine associations between bullying involvement in adolescence and mental health problems in adulthood. Information on bullying-involvement (being bullied, bully-victim, aggressive toward others) and non-involved was collected from 2464 adolescents in Mid-Norway at mean age 13.7 and again at mean age 14.9. Information about mental health problems and psychosocial functioning ...

  9. Is bullying in adolescence associated with the development of

    Being bullied in adolescence is linked to mental health problems like anxiety, depressive- and somatic symptoms and can have negative consequences on both an individual and a societal level. However, evidence regarding the long-term mental health consequences of bullying in adolescence is limited. The aim of this study was to examine whether being bullied at age 15 or 18 was associated with ...

  10. Bullying in Adolescence and Anxiety: An Integrative Review

    School bullying is a problem that affects students' mental health. This study aimed to verify the relationship between adolescents' involvement in bullying situations and anxiety. An integrative literature review was conducted and consulted four databases. Data were descriptively analyzed, and the methodological quality of the reviewed ...

  11. The Mental Health Impact of Bullying on Kids and Teens

    Unfortunately, Bullying Is Common. The National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have published recent statistics, including:. One out of every five students between the ages of 12 and 18 has experienced bullying at some point; Students who reported being bullied stated it had an impact on how other students ...

  12. (PDF) IMPACT OF BULLYING ON ADOLESCENTS' MENTAL HEALTH ...

    Bullying has 4 major elements like (I) power imbalance. i.e., ph ysical, social, emotional, intellectual, or economic. (ii) repeated ac tion (iii) actions are deliberate i.e., to hurt or. threaten ...

  13. (PDF) The Psychological Effects of Bullying Behavior on ...

    Adolescent bullying is a public health issue of great global concern. Given the serious negative effect of bullying on adolescent mental health, it is critical to seek protective factors to ...

  14. (PDF) Moral disengagement and verbal bullying in early adolescence: A

    This three-year longitudinal study examined both within- and between-person effects of moral. disengagement on verbal bullying perpetration in early adolescence. Data came from the first. four ...

  15. 154 Bullying Topics & Bullying Essay Examples

    Table of Contents. Examples of bullying can be found everywhere: in schools, workplaces, and even on the Internet (in the form of cyberbullying). In this article, we've collected top bullying research paper topics and questions, as well as bullying essay samples and writing tips. Get inspired with us!

  16. Bullying in Schools Among the Adolescent, Essay Example

    In 2018 Song and Zhang studied the outcome because there are very many bullying cases among adolescents in the 9th grade. Eight thousand six hundred students partook in the research and approved to have experienced bullying. Statistically, those that experienced verbal bullying was 49.6%, 18.41% experienced corporeal bullying.

  17. Understanding Cause and Effect of Bullying in Adolescence: [Essay

    This research assignment is for the analysis and expansion in understanding cause and effect of Bullying in adolescence, and how this topic relates to the many stages of development. It is critical for the further understanding of what effects and problems bullying may present in a biosocial analysis. Bullying in middle-aged adolescence can ...

  18. Bullying in adolescents

    Bullying is aggressive behavior that is intended to show power and control over another person. Through physical, verbal and non-verbal abusive behavior, a bully violates the space of the other person. They may also harass others using technology such as mobile text messages, blogs and social media. Q.

  19. Adolescents' Risk Factors and Lived Experiences of Bullying

    Suicide risk among adolescents was found to be 20.0% (n=108) with a mean SBQ-R score of 4.88(SD=2.90). Majority (85.7%) of the students had experienced bullying victimisation. Depression was the only statistically significant predictor of bullying victimisation in multivariable analysis (aPR=1.33; 95%CI=1.05-1.68, p=.026).

  20. Longitudinal study on bullying victimization and non-suicidal self

    DOI: 10.1007/s12144-024-06115- Corpus ID: 269877243; Longitudinal study on bullying victimization and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents: a moderated mediation model

  21. Behavioral Sciences

    Feature papers are submitted upon individual invitation or recommendation by the scientific editors and must receive positive feedback from the reviewers. ... The relation between bullying, victimization, and adolescents' level of hopelessness. J. Adolesc. 2012, 35, 1053-1059. [Google Scholar] Williams, K.R.; Guerra, N.G. Prevalence and ...

  22. Cyberbullying Among Adolescents and Children: A Comprehensive Review of

    Introduction. Childhood and adolescence are not only periods of growth, but also of emerging risk taking. Young people during these periods are particularly vulnerable and cannot fully understand the connection between behaviors and consequences ().With peer pressures, the heat of passion, children and adolescents usually perform worse than adults when people are required to maintain self ...

  23. Name-calling NJ student 'school shooter' not bullying, state rules

    The case began in the 2021-22 school year, when the sixth grader brought a Nerf gun to school, according to court papers, The student received a 45-day suspension for violating the district's Code ...