PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: School Bullying, Perfect Storm, Tylenol (Brand)
Document Summary
Rates of bullying vary depending on type of approach used to measure its extent. 160,000 students stay home from school because they are afraid of being bullied (vail, 1999; banks, 2000) Difficulty concentrating on school work, emotional distress, anxiety, and depression. 61. 6% of students who are bullied are picked on because of their looks or speech. Passive loners, shy, sensitive, insecure, don"t pick up on social cues. Do not defend themselves or retaliate and tend to lack friends: physical links. Teased for deviant or subjectively less desirable external traits: obesity, wearing glasses, speech problems, etc. Victimized vs non victimized no more likely to possess obvious stigmatizing physical features. Physically weak children (particularly males) are increasingly victimized over time: males who are smaller tend to be funnier, social cognitive links. Poor self-concept and low self-regard: chronological self-blame why is this only happening to me? , seek out abusive interaction partners who confirm low sense of self- worth.
