BULLYING BEHAVIORS:
Bullying is the use
of coercion to abuse or intimidate others. The behavior involves of verbal or physical power. Bullying can
includes inappropriate verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or
coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on
grounds of class, race, religion, gender, sexuality, appearance, behavior, or
ability, or disability. If bullying is
done by a group, it is called mobbing. The victim of bullying is sometimes
referred to as a "target".
Bullying can be
defined in many different ways. Some countries currently have no legal definition
of bullying, while some U.S. states have laws against it. Bullying consists of
several basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal, physical, and cyber. Any type
of bullying typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation.
Bullying ranges
from simple one on one bullying. To more aggressive bullying in which the bully
may have one or more friends who may seem to be willing to assist the bully in
his or her bullying activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also
referred to as peer abuse.
A bullying
culture can develop in any context in which human beings interact with each
other. This includes school, family, the workplace, home, and neighborhoods. In
a 2012 study of male adolescent boys, the strongest predictor was the
perception of whether the most influential in the males life would approve of
the bullying behavior.
Bullying may be
defined as the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt
another person, physically or mentally. Bullying is characterized by an
individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person.
bullying occurs when a person is:
Exposed repeatedly
overtime to negative actions on the part of one, Or more persons. He says negative actions occur when a person
intentionally inflicts injury or discomfort upon another person, through
physical contact, through verbal abuse or in other ways.
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