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Study on bullying in schools and colleges of UK

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In the UK also it is one of the common problem and it is observed that bullying is common in schools and colleges of the UK. It is very important to ensure that such kind of activities are prevented from taking place in schools and collages so that students does not face any problem and mentally remain healthy. Hence, it is very important to ensure that such kind of activities are prevented from taking place in schools and collages so that students does not face any problem and mentally remain healthy.

Study on bullying in schools and colleges of UK

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TABLE OF CONTENTSBackground of research...................................................................................................................3Sample..............................................................................................................................................5Methodology..................................................................................................................................11Findings..........................................................................................................................................12Descriptive statistics..................................................................................................................12T test...........................................................................................................................................13Conclusion and recomendation......................................................................................................21REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23
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Background of researchBullying is the one of the offensive activity that is observed in most of nations of entireEurope. In the UK also it is one of the common problem and it is observed that bullying iscommon in schools and colleges of the UK. There are number of ways in which bullying relatedactivities are implemented by people (Vanderbilt and Augustyn, 2010). Sometimes people speakabusing words to someone and try to hurt that person self-respect. On other hand, in case ofbullying sometimes by showing some symbols harassment of individuals is done. All thesethings cannot be permitted in any society. Annual bullying survey that was conducted in 2016revealed lots of facts about bullying in the UK. Facts revealed that 1.5 million young people or50% have been bullied in last one year. Out of these million people 19% were bullied on dailybasis. On this basis it can be said that bulling is the activity that is taken place on large scale inthe UK. Interesting fact is that if comparison is made in respect to male and female in terms ofbullying percentage then in that case it can be observed that 66% of males and 31% of femalesare bullied out of total number of people mentioned above. In researches carried out it isobserved that everyone have its own definition in respect to bully (Tippett,Wolke and Platt,2013). 12% respondents in research state that they bully people on daily basis and 14% state thatthey sometimes bully individuals. Fact also revealed that 20% individuals physically attackedsomebody as part of bullying activity to make someone fearsome. Depression is the commonthing that is faced by the people suffered from bullying activity (Annual bullying survey 2016bullying statistics in the UK, 2016). There were 41% respondents that observed social anxietydue to bulling activities. It can be said that bullying is the one of the term that mentally affectlarge number of people. If bullying activity going on consistently then in that case one can go indepression and can be suffered from any mental disease (Weston, 2010). It can be said that it isvery important to ensure that such kind of activities are prevented from taking place in schoolsand collages so that students does not face any problem and mentally remain healthy. Ifindividuals will not face such kind of mental problems then they will be able to focus on theirstudy in proper manner and will be able to perform better at workplace. Sometimes individualsthat suffered from bullying activities decide to commit suicide (Einarsen, Hoel, Zapf and Cooper,2011). Research that was conducted reflect that 33% respondents that are bullied have suiciderelated thoughts. Hence, it can be said that bullying is also one of the factor due to whichindividuals commit suicide at workplace. It is very important to take steps to control bullying3 | P a g e
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related activity and in this regard there must be strict provision to take action against culpritpeople so that students can be protected from bullying related activities in proper manner. Over the past few years it is observed that bullying activity increased consistently at rapidpace and student’s non serious behavior is one of the main reason behind such kind ofconditions. There are number of ways like physical, social, verbal and cyber bullying that iscommonly observed among the people. Verbal and cyberbully is increasing consistently in theUK as in former one individual speak wrong words and sentences to other person and by doingso harass others. On other hand, in case of cyberbully through Facebook posts and what's appattempt is made to threaten front person. Through cyberbully individuals comes in depression atvery fast rate (Zapf and et.al., 2011). This is because usually youngsters are habitual to use socialmedia like Facebook on daily basis and for many hours. Hence, those wants to create mentalpressure on them usually make messages that contain threat. Such kind of activities have directimpact on individual person life and even individual that is not present in front of other personeasily harass individual through social media. Thus, social media is used as primary tools toharass someone. In UK annual bullying survey it is identified that 54% of respondents believedthat at some point of their life they were bullied by someone. It can be said that out ofrespondents every single respondent was bullied even single time in its life. Relevant survey isindicating that 37% of victims observed social anxiety and 36% observed depression due tobullying activity. ¼ of total victims have suicidal thoughts in their mind. Thus, it can be said thatcondition is not good as revealed by the facts. 17% of young people observed cyber bullying(Weston, 2010). Facebook is one of the major tool that is used for bullying purpose. Apart fromthis, Instagram, Twitter and Snap chat are the other common tools that are also used byindividuals to harass someone to great extent. It can be said that this is the time to controlbullying at workplace and to increase awareness among youngsters that such kind of activitieshave negative impact on individuals and sometime they prepare to commit suicide. Hence, thereis need to take some strong action for benefit of people.4 | P a g e
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SampleIn respect to school year 7 number of respondents are 42.86% and percentage of respondents incase of school year 8 is 57.14%. Hence, there is not big difference in number of respondents thatare in both categories.5 | P a g e
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It can be seen from chart that in case of school year 7 there are 36.85% male and 46.67% female.On other hand, in case of school year 8 there are 63.16% male and 53.33% female. Thus, inschool year 7 percentage of male is quite low.From above chart it can be observed that there are most of females as respondents in the researchstudy. There are only 15 to 20 male in the research study and nearby to 30 females. Hence, it canbe said that sample is female dominated.6 | P a g e
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