Effects of Bullying on Children and Society

This article explores the negative physical, mental, and academic effects of bullying on children and society. It discusses the risk factors, symptoms, and long-term consequences of bullying, as well as the importance of social support and intervention. The article also highlights the need for further research and initiatives to address this serious issue.

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Academic journals
Vanderbilt, D. & Augustyn, M. (2010). The effects of bullying. Paediatrics & child health,
20(7), 315-320. Retrieved from : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paed.2010.03.008
Douglas Vanderbilt and Marilyn Augustyn is the author of “ journal pediatrics and child
health”. He is the director of developmental behavioral pediatrics fellowship program in the
division of general pediatrics at the hospital of children in Los Angleles. He is also an associate
lecturer of clinical pediatrics at the Keck school of medicine which is in the University of
Southern California, United States of America.
Marilyn Augustyn is an associate professor of pediatrics at school of medicine which is in
Boston university. He is also director of departmental and behavioral pediatrics at Boston
medical center, United States of America.
This journal explains that bullying is the big problem for children. Social and individual
risk factors are identified for bullying. Away from the instant distress of suffering bullying,
sufferers are at higher risk of future emotional and physical disorders. An initiator of this distress
is bullies but also face an effect for long- term as results of its involvement. Viewers are not let
off from toxic effects of bullying’s not acquitted from its disruption. Though most often
happening at pediatric clinicians and schools can recognize and they support from trauma of
bullying to those kids. They have exclusive opportunities to involve the large societies and
schools on initiatives of anti-bullying. The journal will highlight symptom, sign and risk of
bullying to assist disorder analyst recognize and an address those kids in need (Vanderbilt,
2010).
The effects of bullying on children and large societies are negative physical, mental
health issues and school. They experiences depression and anxiety that increase feeling of
sadness and loneliness. Complaints regarding health reduced academic achievements such as
GPA, and standardized test scores and participation in school.
The sign of bullying include:
 Children refuses to go to school
 They report quickly headaches, stomach pain or feeling uneasy but in actual there seems
to be no medical issue.
 They face insomnia and frequent nightmares.
 They come to home with injures
 They showed low self-esteem and lock themselves in their room.
 They seems irritated
 They eat less sometimes skips dinner, breakfast, or lunch.
 Their grades in result are declining and they seem not interested in school.

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Bullying have serious negative effect on witnesses as well as bystanders. They start learning
to perceiving their school and environment of school as unsafe or unsecured. It may also
generate depression and anxiety from witnessing those issues and they start avoiding schools.
Kids who are facing the situation of being bullied are likely to increase the use of alcohol, drugs,
tobacco or others. it may also increase mental health problems.
Bullying is also linked with suicide as most of the youth who are bullied thought of doing
suicide or engage in suicidal behaviors. Bullying can make worst the unsupportive situation.
Sometimes the child might not show the symptoms or signs that they are being bullied. For
reducing this situation, parents need to talk to their children on daily basis about what is going
with them.
Mark, G. (2016). Understanding the long-term effects of bullying. School nursing, 11(1), 36-39
Retrieved from: http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjsn.2016.11.1.36
Mark Greener is the author of the “journal of school nursing” which contains article
about understanding the long-term effects of bullying. Mark greener is an experienced and
versatile self-employed medical writer. He is the winner of award for journalist and medical
bioscience writer. He is clinical editor in chief of “pharmacy magazine” and writer of various
books related to health. He is from Cambridge University. He worked on a large range of
therapeutic areas for pharmaceutical and clients of biotech. He has worked extensively on CPD
channels aimed of professionals in healthcare. He adapted at converting the medical and
biological material for non-specialist audiences. He committed to maintain the awareness about
scientific and market trends.
In this journal, it is explained that every school must have a “zero tolerance” tactic for
bullying which reflecting the increasing recognition that victimizations by an aristocrats can
impracticably damage lives or even it leads to suicidal activities. Nevertheless, the programmes
of anti-bullying have inadequate impact. In addition to this, the difficulties caused by bullying
can spread out beyond the grounds of adulthood and school persistence. The journal of school
nursing summarizes latest research into psychological effects of long-term bullying and
highlights the areas, which requires additional research (Mark, 2016).
There various forms of bullying are found in this journal such as physical violence,
verbal and relational aggression and cyber bullying. For increasing awareness about the harms
caused due to bullying in these forms, various schools with well intentions and policies of
workplace and approach of “zero tolerance” remains prevalent. The consequences of bullying
can last for the rest of the sufferers and bullies the lives. The childhood bullies are at increasing
the risk of externalizing criminality and disorders such as use of illicit drug and violence. This
journal focus on the bullied children who are under the high risk of generating internalizing
disorders which includes depressions and anxieties. Bullying might be more damaging than other
forms of mistreating or damaging.

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Bullying worst effect on performance of academics of children could contribute to the
long-term problem that is experienced by sufferers or victims. Their results in school goes down
due to bullying and they refuses to go to schools and start hating their surroundings in school.
Their mind diverted because of adverse bullying. They face many problems in studies and their
academics goes down to the worst level. it results in psychological problems in their future life.
Nurses and teachers must remain alert for bullying in settings of non- educational that can
enhance the probability of victimization at school. There are different programmes to control or
mitigate the problem in childhood and adults have had limited impacts on the self-reported
bullying. There are various programmes to press the need for further research and new
initiatives to solve the problem or handle the problem of bullying. Such initiatives and research
helps in translating the good intentions into improved life. It also helps to better the long-term
prospects for children that endure the dangerous impacts of this serious victimization.
Professional journals
Rothon, C., Head, J. & Klineberg, E. (2011). Can social support protect bullied adolescents from
adverse outcomes? A prospective study on the effect of bullying on the educational
achievement and mental health of adolescents at secondary schools in east London.
Adolescence, 34(3), 579-588. Retrieved from:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.adolescence.2010.02.007
The authors of this journal are Catherine Rothon, Jenny Head, Emily Klineberg and
Stephen Stansfeld. Catherine Rothon is an MRC distinct training companion at Barts and the
London school of medicine and dentistry. Jenny Head is a professor of medical and social
statistics, epidemiology and public health, and faculty of pop health sciences. Emily Klineberg is
an undergraduate research assistant at rice university of Houston, Texas.
In this journal, it is stated that social care can have a safeguarding effect in contradiction
of the possibly adversative consequences of victimization on achievement of school and mental
health. It utilizes the representative international example of adolescents. The adolescents who
are bullied were not as much of to attain the suitable educational success standard for their age
group. The children who are bullied especially boys were expected to show depressive signs
compared to those who are not bullied. The families Higher level of social support was essential
in promoting better mental health. It is proved that higher level of friends and moderate of
family support was capable to safeguard the adolescents who are bullied from educational
success. The family and friends support was not enough to guard the adolescents from the
problems of mental health, which they may face because of being bullied. It is recommended the
more active involvement from schools.

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Finding from the recent study suggests that adults support from school can help with the
problems of student’s psychological. But it does not appear to prevent the psychological results
of bullying. The involvement of adults is needed beyond the support. It helps to prevent the
bullying and its psychological impacts. Adults who are bullied twice as likely to have serious
psychological distress compared to those who are not suffering. The high-level social support
from adults in schools was defensive against the serious psychological distress. Nevertheless, it
did not safeguard the impact of victimization exposures (Rothon et all, 2011).
There are several numbers of mechanisms where higher level of group support may
translate into more results that are positive for schoolchildren who are bullied. There are four
kinds of social supports such as instrumental, appraisal, emotional, informational support. The
achievements related to education were measured after the review of baseline for two-years. For
young age group, the standard used for achievement in education at the age of 13 to 14 was the
achievement of level five or above the level five in specified subjects.
Though friends and family supports can defend adolescents against poor educational
results, here the study proved that the support of family and friends alone could not control in
contrast to the high adverse bullying effect that has on mental health among pupil from the
school. It has been observed in other studies that being bullied cannot have the long period effect
and contribute to trouble in their relationship with others, poor mental health and adulthood’s
unemployment risk.
Yen, C. (2014). Mediating effects of bullying involvement on the relationship of body mass
index with social phobia depression, suicidality and self-esteem and sex differences in
adolescents in Taiwan . Child abuse and neglect, 38(3), 517-526. Retrieved from:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.07.015
Cheng-Fang Yen is a professor in Kaohsiung Medical University and Kaohsiung Medical
University Hospital, in the Division of Psychiatry, Taiwan. He is spreading his valuable service
in Immunology. He has been a receiver of numerous award and grants. His study experience
includes several contributions, participation and programs in different countries for different
fields of study. His study interests as a replicate in his extensive choice of publications in many
national journals and international journals. His research interests contain neurology, neuronal
disorders.
This journal of child abuse and neglect states the mediating bullying effects involved in
the association between mental health problems and body mass index (BMI) which includes low
self-assurance, depression, suicidality, and social phobia between youths in Taiwan. The
bullying occurs between individuals of any age or weight. It defines an unreasonable violent
actions carried out frequently against sufferers who are not able to protect by own. In this
journal, the reasonable effect of gender on an intervening act of participation of bullying was

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also analyzed. The Five thousand two hundred and fifty-two children of schools finished the
questionnaires. Abusing and enactment of inactive and active victimization was considered by
use of Chinese type of the high School Experiences Questionnaire of bullying. It was calculated
from measurements of height and self-reported mass. The Social Phobia Inventory, , the
suicidality-related questionnaire from the epidemiological form of the Kiddie-Schedule for
Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, the Mandarin Chinese version of the Center for
Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were used to
measure tumble, low self-esteem, suicidality, and social phobia between adolescents. The
bullying halve effect involves a relation between improved mental health and BMI difficulties
was studied with the help of Sobel test. The numerous group structural equation model verified
the reasonable influence of gender on the intervening act of bullying participation.
Discrimination of active and inactive victimization and enactment of inactive bullying, but not
enactment of vigorous bullying, had an intervening influence on the relation concerning
improved BMI and entirely four mental issues related to health. Gender did not require an
important self-control consequence on the intervening act of bullying participation.
Victimization association should be an aim of avoidance and involvement in evolving a tactic to
recover mental health between young people with better BMI (Yen, 2014).
The objective of this article is to identify the relationship between mental health and body
weight indicators consisting depression, self-esteem and insomnia amongst the adolescents of
Taiwans which lie between 7 to 12. The school and mental health experts must take involvement
between obesity or overweight and self-conceit into reflection when oncoming the psychological
health between the youths or adolescents.
Overweight and underweight adolescents are likely to be at higher risk for being bullied.
The nuisance that takes place is not just the mean natured girls at school. It can be from coaches,
friends and as subtle as teasing by members of the family.
The consequences of bullying can be demoralizing and change from individual to
individual as the beginning for different forms of bullying ranges depending on the person. The
bullying experiences is highly individualized and depends on the different forms of bullying,
frequency and intensity involved, and everything should be considered when assessing the
emotional, psychological and physical consequences of a victim.
Beattie, R. (2015). Long term effects of bullying. Archieves of disease in childhood, 100(9).
Retrieved from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-306667
Dieter Wolke is an author of the journal “archives of disease in childhood”. He is a
professor of developmental psychology and individual differences. His main research areas are
developmental ways leading to social and emotional development, school and sibling bullying,
biological at risk children, developmental psychopathology, regulatory problems of infants that
is crying, sleeping or feeding, and parenting.

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In this journal, it is stated that bullying is systematic misuse of powers and well
demarcated as violent behavior or through upper class that is passed out frequently which
includes the power inequality. Bullying is considered incorrectly as the normal formal passage
procedure. This analysis reflects the significance of victimization as a bigger risk factor for
mental and physical health and it decrease the adult roles adaptation including establishing
permanent relationships, fit in into the work and being independent parsimoniously. Peer
victimization has been overlooked most of the time by professionals of health but should be
reflected as an important cause of risk and protecting the issues.
Bullying can be the two types that is direct bullying including verbal and physical actions
of violence such as stealing, hitting and name-calling. An indirect bullying in which a long term
effect of bullying such as person cannot be invited for playing outsider games or spreading
rumors about the person which will affect badly their mental health. Currently there has been a
cyberbullying, which is performed with the help of electronic means such as internet, mobile
phones or calls. Bullying occurs in situations where persons do not have to concern about the
group they need to be part of it. This situation is being with the kids in school classrooms or with
the siblings at home. Person targets those children who show that he/she has no one to support
for bullying. The bullying effects are cross-sectional in according to the current studies. It is not
possible to recognize whether bullying is a reason or consequences of health issues.
The bullying is found in all the communities includes ancient civilizations and modern
hunter-gatherer communities. It is deemed to be an evolutionary variation for the determination
of gaining higher status and dominance, develop access to required resources, protect or secure
survival and reduction in pressure and permit for more opportunities. Bullying has long-term
effect in the life of an individual as the academic performance of an individual concurrent. The
high risk of mental and somatic issues related to health. Bullies are more likely to show
offending behavior and perform dating violence.
Childhood bullying has severe impact on health that results in considerable charges for an
individual, their societies and families. Bullying is the result of many absent of students in
school. Many children and adolescents bullied undergo in silence and refuse to say to their
teachers or parents about their experience because of shame. It is essential to consider that
numerous children give up from school because of being bullied and related health issues that
throws a extended shadow over the lives of those children. To protect from violence against the
self-harming and lessen the health and mental problems, so it is important for practitioner of
healthiness to address the bullying.

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References
Beattie, R. (2015). Long term effects of bullying. Archieves of disease in childhood, 100(9)
Mark, G. (2016). Understanding the long-term effects of bullying. School nursing, 11(1), 36-39.
Rothon, C., Head, J. & Klineberg, E. (2011). Can social support protect bullied adolescents from
adverse outcomes? A prospective study on the effect of bullying on the
educational achievement and mental health of adolescents at secondary schools in
east London. Adolescence, 34(3), 579-588
Vanderbilt, D. & Augustyn, M. (2010). The effects of bullying. Paediatrics & child health,
20(7), 315-320
Yen, C. (2014). Mediating effects of bullying involvement on the relationship of body mass
index with social phobia depression, suicidality and self-esteem and sex
differences in adolescents in Taiwan . Child abuse and neglect, 38(3), 517-526.