Bullying Literature Review

Review of literature

A study was done to estimate the prevalence of bullying in school children and to examine its association with common symptoms in childhood, children between the ages 8-12 were randomly selected from private and public schools. The 500 children were interviewed. Teasing and name calling was seen most commonly and bullying was found significantly low in all girls rather than co-educational school. The students being bullied reported feeling sad and preferred to stay alone and was also likely to have problems such as vomiting, school phobia and sleep.(Kshirsagar, Agarwal et al. 2007)

Munni, R and Malhi, P.(2006) reported that in about 10 schools in Gujrat bullying was mainly within the school premises.

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The aim of a study was to aseess the prevalence of bullying as well as vicitimization among adolescents. A sample of 454 adolescents were selected from public schools from the grades 7-9. They were administered three survey instruments. It was found that around twenty four percent adolescents were reported to be involved in bullying. Also gender differences showed that males were more likely to be involved in bullying environment than females.

A study selected 904 students aged 12-17 years from one school and 8-11 from another school. Both schools were co educational. The students were administered four questionnaires- Oleweus bully/victim,the short mood and feelings, the revised children’s manifest anxiety incorporating alie scale and Rosenberg self esteem scale. It was seen that the prevalence of being bullied “sometimes or more often” was 4.2%, whereas the prevalence of bullying others “sometimes or more often” was 3.4%. Also in school A boys in 8th grade were reported having high anxiety and lying scores and were more likely to be bullied. In school B girls from the 9th grade with low anxiety and lying scores were least likely

Self evaluated self esteem and peer evaluated self esteem were significantly correlated whereas defece egotism was correlated neither to self ecvaluated nor to peer evaluated self esteem. The self esteem profiles of adolescents in the study associated with their bullying behaviour and it was found that boys were more strongly associated than girls. Individuals with defensive self esteem were likely to bully others and also assist or reinforce the bully, whereas adolescents with genuine high self- esteem were more likely to defend the victims who were being bullied. Adolecents who were victins of bullying was found to have low self esteem and mostly seen among