Bullying among teenagers and its effects
Limo, Steven (2015)
Limo, Steven
Turun ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015112417491
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015112417491
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Bullying and peer victimization in schools have become serious concerns for students, parents, teachers, and school officials in the United States of America and around the world (Hong and Espalage 2012, 311). It has become a type of violence that threatens a young person’s well being and more especially in school.
This thesis project was aimed at studying and exploring the different types of bullying, who is more likely to be involved, as well as how prevalent they are and the mental effects they are likely to have. After researching, the project is tasked with creating a Facebook page in which materials touching on bullying will be posted for purposes of creating awareness.
This research work uses systematic literature review where several databases, and relevant webpages targeting teenage related bullying were searched employing the search words; Bullying, cyber bullying, school bullying, Effects of bullying and Teenagers.
From the results its evident that bullying in whatever form has lasting negative effects on the development of a person. The effects are not only exhibited by the victim but also the bullies, symptoms for both will range from short-term to long, severe and life hanging effects. Furthermore it is asserted that an effective bullying prevention programme entails launching an awareness campaign to make the objectives known to the schools, parents, and the community members as well as establishing a school safety committee to implement and evaluate the prevention program. Creating policies and rules, creating a mission statement, code of conduct, school wide rules and a bullying reporting system, as well as educating and training teachers and students on how to respond to incidences of bullying has been found to be of paramount importance in preventing bullying.
This thesis project was aimed at studying and exploring the different types of bullying, who is more likely to be involved, as well as how prevalent they are and the mental effects they are likely to have. After researching, the project is tasked with creating a Facebook page in which materials touching on bullying will be posted for purposes of creating awareness.
This research work uses systematic literature review where several databases, and relevant webpages targeting teenage related bullying were searched employing the search words; Bullying, cyber bullying, school bullying, Effects of bullying and Teenagers.
From the results its evident that bullying in whatever form has lasting negative effects on the development of a person. The effects are not only exhibited by the victim but also the bullies, symptoms for both will range from short-term to long, severe and life hanging effects. Furthermore it is asserted that an effective bullying prevention programme entails launching an awareness campaign to make the objectives known to the schools, parents, and the community members as well as establishing a school safety committee to implement and evaluate the prevention program. Creating policies and rules, creating a mission statement, code of conduct, school wide rules and a bullying reporting system, as well as educating and training teachers and students on how to respond to incidences of bullying has been found to be of paramount importance in preventing bullying.