Bullying Prevention Awareness 13 • Physical - Injury to a person’s body or possessions. Hitting, kicking, pinching, spitting, tripping, pushing, taking or damaging someone’s belongings, making rude hand gestures and sexual assaults. •Verbal - Insult a person through words. Teasing, name calling, taunting and threatening. • Social or relational - Hurt someone’s reputation or relationship. Alienating someone on purpose by telling others not to become friends with them or by embarrassing them in public or by spreading rumors about them. • Cyberbullying - Use of electronic technology as a communication tool. Cell phones, computers and tablets are the devices used to communicate or bully through social media sites, text messages, chats and websites. Examples of cyberbullying are sending rude text messages and emails to someone or posting embarrassing pictures and videos about someone on social sites. FORMS OF BULLYING Points to remember: • Bullying is different from other forms of aggression like conflict between peers. • Bullying takes place in various socio-economic and population (urban, suburban and rural) groups. Research shows that no racial differences exist in bullying. • Boys are more likely to report physical bullying whereas girls are more likely to report bullying involving rumor-spreading and sexual commenting. • Girls report about being bullied by boys and girls whereas boys report being bullied only by boys. • An adult is notified about bullying in less than 40% of the cases. • 5-15% of youth get bullied while 7-12% always bully others.
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