Essay On Bullying In Schools

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I. Introduction: Persistent bullying in school raises a big problem in society and requires drastic solutions. Bullying behaviors can be defined as intended actions which are repeated many times to harm or threat other people in both psychological and physical aspects (Hazler, 1996). To be more specific, bullies tend to abuse power toward victims in order to dominate them, which forms an inequality of power between them in a long time. Violent behaviors have different types, which can be: physical (fighting, kicking, punching, and hitting), verbal (teasing, swearing, threatening, using put-downs), sexual bullying (making sexual comments or gestures), and cyber (sending spam contents via telephone or computer) (Suckling & Temple, 2002; Olweus,…show more content…
However, bullying in schools in Vietnam has not received enough attentions from education and society. The root causes of these bullying behaviors have not been researched thoroughly. There is a shortage of scientific studies of bullying among students in middle schools in Vietnam. Thus, this research aim at 1) find out different factors (root causes) that may affect bullying among middle school students 2) examine the degree of effect of the above determinants. The result of the study is expected to help educational managers and policy makers have insights on the issue, thus interventional measures can be…show more content…
In adolescence, normative belief of the peer group about bullying is the most important factor predicting attitudes toward bullying. According to previous research, if students believe that bullying is permit, they were more likely to engage in all types of bullying behavior (Bentley, 1995; Huesmann,1997; Olweus, 1994). Moreover, a family, peer and school culture that supports bullying is more likely to increase normative support for bullying. So, we suggested normative belief about bullying has significant relationship with bullying
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