Physical Bullying
Physical bullying occurs when a person uses overt bodily acts to gain power over
peers. Unlike other types of bullying in schools, physical bullying is easy to
identify because the acts are so obvious. Physical bullies tend to demonstrate
high levels of agression from a young age and more likely to boys.
Physical bullying can take many forms:
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Threatened with violence
Pushed
Pulled by hair
Slapped
Punched
Kicked
Tripped
Stamped on
Spat on
Indirect forms of physical bullying:
Extortion where threat of violence leads the victim to give up money or
possessions
Threat of violence or gestures and body and body language which is
intimidating
Making faces and dirty gestures
Verbal Bullying
Verbal bullying occurs when someone uses language to gain power over
his or her peers. A verbal bully may make fun of a peers lack of physically
capabilities, may tease a peer for beeing a dumbie or nerd and/or may
call a peer names based on appearance. Even though verbal bullying
creats no physical damage, this type of abuse can have leasting
physicological impacts on victims.
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Types of verbal bullying:
Threatening the victim
Teasing
Relational Aggression
Relational aggression is a form of bullying common among tweens, and
Cruel criticsm
Racist slurs
especially tween girls. The behaior describes an indovidual, or a group of
individualsm who try to hurt peer, or sacrifice anothers standing within
their peer group. Relational aggression is not typical bullying either
physical or verbal but more subtle form of aggression that uses
relationships to damage ot manipulate others.
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Relational aggression causes considerable physicologicalpain leading to
social anxiety, loneliness, depression, and substance abuse.
Types of relational aggression:
Stonewalling is a situation in which one person purposefully ignores
another. Example: If two teenagers are angry at another teen, they may
choose or agree to ignore the other teen completely and without
explanation.
Exclusion: A single individual may be purposefully excluded from a group
of friends or colleagues and essentially cut out from all activities and
participation in the group. It differs from the silent treatment in that the
group makes sure that the excluded individual knows that he or she is not
allowed to participate in the group.
Taunting includes disparaging remarks made directly to the individual
and continues even when the individual is apparently distressed or
depressed.
Gossip: Bullies will often create and spread rumors about others behind
their backs; at times harmful statements are even made within earshot.
The goal is to ruin reputations and damage self-image through hearsay
and exclusive conversations; the digital age has made this form of
relational bullying easier through text messaging and social networking
platforms like Facebook and My Space.
Conditional Friendship: Ill only be your friend if is used or implied
in some way. For example, an individual may not be able to leave a group
or must behave in a certain way or expect punishment, ridicule, or gossip
for non-compliance.
Cyber bullying
Cyber bullying is any harassment that occurs via the Internet. Vicious
forum posts, name calling in chat rooms, posting fake profiles on web
sites, and mean or cruel email messages are all ways of cyberbullying.
When bullying comes home via the Internet it can leave victims feeling
helpless and overwhelmed.
Types of cyber bullying:
Text message bullying
Picture/video clip bullying via
E-mail bullying
Chat-room bullying
Bullying through instant
mobile phone cameras
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Phone call bullying via mobile
messaging (IM)
phones
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Bullying via websites
Examples of cyber bullying
A student is bombarded by anonymous threatening and taunting emails at
home, even though there is no direct harassment at school. The victim has
no idea who is sending the messages and starts to feel like everybody is
against them. That student is being cyberbullied.
A school bulletin board is spammed with name-calling posts that spread
vicious rumors about a specific student. The rumors arent true but kids at
school see the posts and believe them. The student is then ostracized by
peers. This student is the victim of cyberbullying.
A nasty fake profile is posted at a social networking site using a students
real name, photo, and contact information. That student starts getting
weird email messages from strangers who think the profile is real. Some of
the messages are crude. Some of the messages are mean. This is another
example of cyberbullying.
