PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Influence, Cyberbullying, Genetic Marker
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Rates of bullying vary depending on type of approach used to measure its extent. Miss bullies trying to get others to dislike someone. Deliberately excluding someone from a group of friends. Every day approximately 160,000 students stay home from school because they are afraid of being bullied (vail, 1999; banks, 2000) Teased for deviant of subjectively less desirable external traits. Obesity, wearing glasses, speech problems, clumsiness, or physical disability) Victimized youth are more likely to possess obvious stigmatizing physical features (olweus, 1978) Difficulty concentrating on school work, emotional distress, anxiety, and depression (kochenderfer-ladd, Victims don"t report the bullying to adults / or wait before reporting. Students often feel that adult intervention is frequent and / or unhelpful and they often fear that telling adults will bring retaliation from bullies (banks, 1997; mullin - rindler, 03) 61. 6% of students who are bullied are picked on because of their looks or speech (u. s. news and world.
