Bullying is formm of aggressive behaviour in which someine intentianally and repidily cause another person injury or discojmfort.bullying can take the form of physical contact, word or more subtile action the verb ‘to bully’ is first used in 1710. High level forms of violence such as assult and murder, commonly receives most media attention, but lower level forms of violence such as bullying has only in recent yearshas made its attention gained by researchers, parents and guardence and authority figures.
Bully’s regulary engage in harmfull and hurtful teasing, name calling, or intimjidation ehich are particulary against those who are smaller or weak, able to defend themselves.
The bullys belives that they are supireor to other students and make other’s fun for being weak or different. Bullies frequently fight with others as a way to prove dominance and may also make friends to bully for them.
Bullies exhibit aggressive behavior towards there parents snd family and often towards adults. They tend to have positive atiudes towards violebce, are reactive, like to dominate others and little sympathy with there vitinms and unsually low levels of anxiety or insecurity.
They usually desire power and control and get satisfaction from inducing suffering. Despite common image of bully, they generally have average high level of self estee, might be popular with sports teacher and classmates and may also do well in education.
Bulling led to increase through the elementary grades, peak in middle school nand drop off by grade 11th and 12th. The most common form of bullying is verbal abused and harassment, which is followed by social isolation and vulgar comments about physical appearance.
At middle and high school, bullying most commonly involvs teasing and social exclusion, but mau also includes physical violence, threats, theft, sexual and racial harassment, and distruction of property. At the elementary school bullying is more likeyly to invole physical aggresiion bu is also charcterised by teasing.