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Bullying can feel easier and less restrictive through the use of the internet. This phenomenon is described and detailed in a principle (or effect), called "the online disinhibition effect". The use of technology for purposes of bullying can be detrimental to someone's online reputation.
Bullying, one form of which is depicted in this staged photograph, is detrimental to students' well-being and development. [1]School bullying, like bullying outside the school context, refers to one or more perpetrators who have greater physical strength or more social power than their victim and who repeatedly act aggressively toward their victim.
Long-term changes to the brain’s structure and chemistry are an indicator “of how sinister bullying is” says Tracy Vaillancourt, a developmental psychologist at the University of Ottawa.
Pre-adolescent research confirms such a negative relationship between trait EI [a] and bullying behavior; bullying behavior is negatively associated with total empathy and more specifically, the EI dimension of cognitive empathy, which is the ability to understand or take on the emotional experiences and perspectives of others. [7]
For Jadyn Lontoc, a high school senior in Southern California, the Atlanta-area spa shootings in March was the breaking point after months of escalating
Bullying is a form of harassment that is often repeated and habitual, and can happen in person or online. [61] Bullying in childhood may inflict harm or distress and educational harm that can affect the later stage of adolescence. [62] Bullying involvement, as victim, bully, bully/victim, or witness, can threaten the well-being of children.
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For World Bullying Prevention Month, here's how and when to talk to your kids about bullying.