Year: 2019 | Month: December | Volume 9 | Issue 2
Incidence and Impact of Bullying on Secondary and Higher Secondary Government-Aided School Students of Noida, UP
DOI:10.30954/2231-4105.02.2019.6
Abstract:
During the school years, bullying is one of the most common manifestations of violence. Research on bullying started more than 40 years ago where Olweus (1973) defined this behaviour as aggressive and intentional act carried out by a group or an individual repeatedly and over time against a victim who is in some way smaller, weaker, younger or in any way more vulnerable than the bully. There are different forms of bullying with the behaviours including but not limited to- verbal abuse, intimidation, blackmail, physical coercion, harassment and threats. The main reasons of bullying are the differences in race, class, sexual orientation, language, size, reputation and the ability of an individual. It hampers learning and development, robbing the child of his/her self-esteem and confidence to face others and develop as an individual. Intensive school-based programs against bullying, disciplinary methods and the mobilization of bystanders, or the silence of the majority witnessing bullying, are keys to success. The authorsaim to scrutinize the incidence of bullying among secondary and higher-secondary students of a government-aided all-girls school of Noida, UP through a self-administered questionnaire on a sample size of 100 students. They also aim to understand the students’ perspective of the reason behind being bullied and what according to them can be done by the adults to curb it. The paper intends to ascertain the impact that bullying poses on the students by instilling fear and anxiety in them and also whether students feel free to talk about it with others.
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