Secondary Research into Bullying

My secondary research about Bullying consists of facts and figures on how many people are bullied, the
outcome of bullying and statistics about bullying. I have also gathered information on the darker side of
bullying about suicide and those statistics. Bullying happens in many different forms, examples of these
are shown below.
Bullying can lead to something worse, the most common consequence of bullying is the victim trying or
succeeding in taking their own life, also known as Suicide. Below are some statistics of suicide due to
bullying.
Here are some of the satistics of people who are bullied, and it also shows those who admit they are
being bullied, or those who have bullied someone.
"According to Bullying UKs 2006 National Bullying Survey (the largest, most comprehensive survey of
its kind at the time):
69% of children in the UK report being bullied
87% of parents report that their child had been bullied in the past 12 months
20% report bullying others
85% had witnessed bullying
(admirably, 82% of them tried to intervene).
It is estimated that at least 20 children and adolescents a year commit suicide because of being bullied
this is a conservative estimate based on documented cases known to us.
According to the National Bullying Survey, more than half of those who reported being bullied had
been physically hurt (parents report over 71%); 34% of those physically hurt required attention from a
doctor or hospital. 3% of the attacks involved a weapon."
Via: archive.beatbullying.org/dox/resources/statistics.html
"What is bullying?
Bullying can take many forms: from teasing and spreading rumours, to pushing someone around and
causing physical harm. It often happens in front of other people.
It includes name calling, mocking, kicking, taking belongings, writing or drawing offensive graffiti,
messing around with peoples belongings, gossiping, excluding people from groups, and threatening
others.
Why are people bullied?
Children and young people are bullied for all sorts of reasons. It can be due to their race, their religion,
their appearance, their sexual orientation, because they have a disability or because of their home
circumstances. People are bullied for being black, white, fat, clever, gay, or red-haired. These are a
few examples.
But people are sometimes picked on for no reason.
Cyberbullying is increasingly common both inside and outside school. Cyberbullying is any form of
bullying that involves the use of mobile phones or the internet. For example, sending offensive text
messages and emails, circulating degrading images on the internet, or impersonating someone on
social networking sites such as Facebook. For more information on cyberbullying and how to respond
to it, see How to deal with cyberbullying.
The effects of bullying
Bullying makes the lives of its victims miserable. It undermines their confidence and destroys their
sense of security.
Bullying can cause sadness, loneliness, low self-esteem, fear, anxiety, and poor concentration, and
lead to self-harm, depression, suicidal thoughts and, in some cases, suicide.
Bullying can also affect children and young people's attendance and progress at school."
Via: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Bullying/Pages/Bullyingfacts.aspx
I have seen stories of bullying been published in magazines such as Chat and Thats Life. There was
one about a young girl who was 10 years old who was bullied so much at her school about being fat that
she starved herself and was then hospitalized for four months in order to get her strength back. This
portrays that the side effects of bullying can be severe and people can get hurt because of it.
Bullying in schools is the main form of bullying as they think that they are able to get away with it. Two
of the interviewees that I am going to be interviewing were bullied in school and family members of two
of them were also bullied when in school. This is something that is serious but not many people will
speak out in person about what is being done to them. I do know some of this information from
personal experience as I was bullied in school and I did not want to talk about it with anyone, it also
makes you think horrid thoughts and if you are bullied bad makes you want to do something rash to
yourself. An example of a bad case of bullying was the famous case of a girl named Amanda, whos story
is now on YouTube, who ended up taking her own life due to being bullied about one mistake that she
made when she was a young and nave teenage girl.
Bullying is not just physical or verbal, it also occurs in different places and in different forms, for example
Cyberbullying. Although it takes effort and time to stop the other forms of bullying, and not all are
stopped, Cyberbullying also takes allot of effort to stop as it is not done as open as other forms.
"Cyberbullying
1. Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online. 1 in 4 has had it happen more than once.
2. 70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online. Filling up your friends' Facebook feeds with
positive posts instead of negative ones can boost school-wide morale. Start a Facebook page for
students to submit positive acts they see in school to promote a culture of positivity on and offline.
Sign up for Positivity Page.
3. Over 80% of teens use a cell phone regularly, making it the most common medium for cyber
bullying.
4. 68% of teens agree that cyber bullying is a serious problem.
5. 81% of young people think bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person."
Via: https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-cyber-bullying
Bullying mainly occurs through school, this includes Secondary and even Primary, though the children
are young they can still bully people, this normally happens because they have been subject to bullying,
but many times its just because they feel that they can get away with it, they do not know what it does
to those who are actually bullied.
"Primary school pupils (years 4-6, ages 8-11)
40% of pupils said that they had been bullied at or near school in the last 12 months.
10% said they had bullied someone else in the last 12 months, 15% didnt know if they had.
12% reported being a victim of teasing, name calling and threats, 9% said they had been left out or
ignored and 8% reported being shoved, kicked or had belongings taken.
17% of pupils said bullying wasnt a problem in their school. Another 51% of pupils said bullying was
dealt with well in their school, 16% said badly or not at all.
Herefordshire pupils are more likely to say that they had been bullied in the last 12 months. 38% of
Herefordshire pupils compared with 29% in the wider sample.
Secondary School pupils (years 7-10, ages 11-15)
25% of pupils said that they had been bullied at or near school in the last 12 months. 8% said that
they had bullied someone else in the past 12 months.
45% of pupils think that their school deals with bullying at least quite well. 7% said that bullying
wasnt a problem in their school.
Ages 15+, online survey
19% said that they had been bullied in the last 12 months. When asked where the bullying had take
place 45% said at school/college/work.
6% said that they had bullied someone else in the past 12 months.
16% said that they had experienced cyber bullying at least once in the past 12 months."