The ratio of frequent bullying reported internationally ranges from a low of 1.9% among 1 Irish sample to a high of 19% in a Malta study.
(Nansel, et al., 2001)
Bullying behaviour comes in various forms, it can be direct and evident like hitting and name-calling or more indirect or subtle like spreading rumours and social exclusion. The following is a list of types of bullying which a child can be subject to:
1. Verbal bullying
2. Physical bullying
3. Emotional bullying
4. Cyber bullying
5. Bias bullying
6. Social Alienation bullying
7. Accidental bulling
Verbal bullying
Such bullying is related to mocking, threating, name-calling, making offensive remarks, or joking about a person on the basis of religion, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or the way they look. Everyone might believe that physical bullying is the most type of bullying that causes harm to children; however, verbal bullying might be just as harmful. With verbal bullying the objective of the bully is to degrade and diminish the victim while making himself/herself feel powerful, dominant and in control.
Normally this type of bullying is hard to identify because the bullies usually refrain from verbally attacking the victim in the presence of an adult (Smokowski & Kopasz, 2005).
Example of verbal bullying with regards to teasing: a group of children making fun of child A because he could not run as fast as everyone else. Or else with the use of threats: where the bully tells child B to give him his pencil otherwise he will kick him.
Verbal abuse is the most common form of bullying for both sexes (Nansel, et...
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