Essays on Bullying

Bullying is a prevalent issue that continues to affect students, families, schools, and societies. The impacts of bullying on an individual’s health can be grave, and it is, therefore, essential to recognize and establish interventions that will bring bullying to an end and make schools a safer environment for learning....

Newman, R. S. (2008). Adaptive and nonadaptive help-seeking with peer harassment: An integrative perspective of coping and self-regulation. Educational Psychologist, 43(1), 1-15. Newman, as the prime objective of this article, seek to examine the dilemma that students faces while in school when harassed and the approaches that most apply to counteract...

My issue is bullying. Indeed from own past experiences, bullying affects all the aspects of a person. Cognitively, a person bullied feels low and inferior. Secondly, they tend to detach themselves from everyone due to fear of being bullied. The demeanor shown by the bullied persons thus is gloom and...

Introduction With today’s technology, cyberbullying has become easier than ever, and children and youth of this generation do not need to have a personal confrontation. The use of internet has become one of the most vital factors of the information source and a platform where people can share or communicate their...

The issue of bullying has gained much attention nationally following the association of teen suicide with cyberbullying and school bullying prevalence. A study by Jankauskiene et al. which involving 1162 pupils from 6th to 11th grade found out that 56.5% of learners were associated with bullying, 16.3% were bullies and...

Bullying is a habitual and often repeated behavior where individuals use a distinctive pattern to coerce, intimidate, abuse, force, and threaten peers verbally, physically, and emotionally over a period of time to aggressively dominate others. The act of bullying is not limited by age, gender, social standings or race. It...

Over the last decades, cyberbullying has rapidly increased all over the world. Cyberbullying is the use of the internet and other electronic communication devices to spread hateful information about another individual. The most affected groups include the youths, bisexuals, gays, disabled individual and the socially isolated persons. The bullying may...

Bullying is one of the issues that affect the self-esteem of people. In every context, there are those persons that are considered vulnerable. As such, those who have authority tend to intimidate those that are perceived weak. In most cases, people focus on the issue of those people that are...

Bullying refers to the repeated act of attacking someone either verbally or physically or spreading rumors about them as a way of trying to demean their social strata. Bullying is a common practice especially in schools, and it can cause physical or mental harm to students. While some scholars think...

While there may be no legal definition of bullying, it takes many forms, both direct and indirect. Direct forms of bullying include verbal and physical abuse. Indirect forms of bullying are more subtle and could be in the form of manipulation or coercion. Bullying is a highly controversial topic that...

According to Dooley " Cross (2009), cyberbullying is a deliberate act of repeated aggression against an individual using some form of technology. Belsey (2004) defines cyberbullying as “the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to...

Descriptive Essay: Personal Experience with Bullying in School. When I was in junior high, a new student was enrolled in our class. He was a Muslim of Arabic descent in a school that was dominated by Christians. His adherence to his religious requirements such as saying prayers and eating habits...