Bullying
A study was made from 1,000 schools in Colombia where students had to completea national test of citizenship competencies. Part of these questions included topics about bullying and families, neighborhoods and their own socio-emotional skills. All of thesedata gathered was combined with community violence and socio-economic conditions of all Colombian’s municipalities, which allowed them to perform analyses to pinpoint municipality- andschool-level variables predicting school bullying. Higher levels of school bullying were related to more males in schools, lower levels of empathy, more authoritarian and violentfamilies, higher levels of community violence, better socio-economic conditions and more beliefs supporting aggression. These conclusions might reflect student, classroom and schoolcontributions because student-level variables were added at the school level. We can also conclude that neither poverty nor population density or homicide rates contributed toexplaining bullying.
Bullying is not just an aggressor and attacked, it also involves a community. A good way to prevent bullying has to do with the role of parents. Many of them do notkeep track of their children and their whereabouts. Parents should put limits in their homes and/or should stop mistreating their children because that leads them to mistreat others.
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