Bullying

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Bullying in the schools
American Military University
Social Psychology
Lucyanette Zayas
June 28, 2012 
Introduction
Groups of children, adolescentsand even adults tend to establish hierarchies, whatever the group is always competitive relationships and power between them. As this happens many times is the possibility of influence or simply desired by another using the weaker than would be the person who lacks the ability pro social and suffers from being bullied.
Bullying is one of the ways of intimidating others through harassment, verbalabuse and physical or as it has been doing today using cybernetic devices.
Modernity has grabbed all the countries of the world and cyber bullying is the most modern of the assailants stalking their victims. The cyber bullying includes messenger, text










Literature Review
Bullying
Bullying refers to, harassment or peer victimization in schools. The word is used todescribe these different types of negative behaviors that occur in children and adolescents, ranging from jokes, to ignore or belittle the person, to personal attacks, and even serious abuses, refers to negative situations or actions generated by other partners, and a student is subjected to repeatedly for some time. Sometimes it is an individual who makes the "bullying", sometimes a group. Thebullying, involve physical violence, verbal or social exclusion.
In the bullying are Involved the bullies are those who have a position of leadership and power in a group this person also has features like intelligences or may lack intelligence, or they can be bullies that were or are harassed somewhere, like work, school or at home, this makes them repeat the behavior. Along with the bullies arethe spectators, this group reinforce and defend the position of supporting offender wrongdoing. This leads to bullying continue, if viewers decide not to support in any way the bully can stop bullying. After this, the harassment suffered by all the attacks and end up with psychological problems that often comes to suicide.
Bullying and harassment in the school or anywhere, cause in peoplepsychological problems, anxiety and depression is also important to note that can cause eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia (Kaltiala-Heino, Rimpel, Rantanen, and Rimpel, 2000) low self-esteem (O'Moore & Kirkham, 2001), and very poor performance in school (Kochenderfer and Ladd, 1996; Karatzias and Swanson, 2002). This often occurs when someone is obese, and although, we can say that relative,happens to people who have a different physical aspect to what others call to be good looking.
Types of Bullying
You can identify different types of harassment which many of them can go appear simultaneously.
Physical: pushing, attacks that lead to fights.
Verbal: Name-calling, jokes in bad taste, public contempt, ridicule of physical defects.
Psychological: individual lowerself-esteem and encourage their sense of fear which leads to various problems such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders and even suicide.
Social isolation and peer groups can reach isolated from their own familiars.
Cyberbullying-Used for the fun of harassing their victims by means of comments, pictures, videos.
All types of bullying are correlated, which makes the victim a life full of fear,grief, depression, anxiety, among other things.
PROBLEM
The object of study is bullying in schools. This topic is part of school violence and, more specifically, is violence between students, where a youth is the constant victim of violence that are manifested in various forms. The problem of this study are the subject of conflicting relations in the educational space, producing a distortion of...
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