Dangerous Consequences Of Bullying In Schools

Introduction Bullying is a common problem among children and adolescents in schools around the world (Andreou, 2000; Olweus, 1994; Tanaka, 2001). It is a serious phenomenon which has dangerous consequences for those who are involved. Bullying is relevant to health and wellbeing. Olweus in Norway began studying this in the late 1970s (Olweus, 1978). Bullies may participate in physical abuse and name-calling toward students who are weak (Nayloret al, 2001; Olweus, 1993; Tanaka, 2001). (Olweus, 1994) described it as aggressive, controlling and showing little compassion. Kumpulaulen (1999) found that children who suffer from inequality in a socio-economic sense begin to drift toward bullying in the long-term. In addition, bullies are low

In [1996] Austin and Joseph found bully-victims have high conduct problems. While In [2000] Wolke found that bullies have the highest ratio of hyperactivity, lower pro-social behaviors and conduct disorder. In the same year, Baldry and Farmington found that boys who were found to bully with great frequency suffered more from high rather than low levels of delinquency. After that, Salmon found that “bullies and bully/victims most often present at outpatient clinics with conduct disorder and sometimes with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”. In [2001] Kumpulainen and colleagues found that between bully-victims, was twice more common than between

Moreover, a Finnish study found that in 17,643 adolescents, victims suffered from pain in their neck and shoulder, had stomachaches and low back pain (Kaltiala-Heino, Rimpela, Rantanen, & Rimpela, 2000). It also found that girls suffer from eating disorders and substance abuse, while boys have excessive drinking of alcohol (Kaltiala-Heino, et al., 2000). In a study reported on in the Canadian Medical Association Journal Weir (2001) mentioned that victims are more likely to suffer of difficulties sleeping. In addition, that they suffer of stomachaches and found that victims were more likely to complaints from headaches and they have troubles with bedwetting than