Bullying Journal - Psychology Essay

This journal described the nature of bullying and the reason behind why it happens. As the paper describes the many differences of between those who are bullies, and those who are not. This report also has a lot of vital information that was able to show why things happen the way they do in school, and why bullying is so common is grades K – 12. The journal was able to show many percentages and diagrams, which explained the report very well. It gave a better understanding and visual of what the study was all about. This journal described the findings of many researchers, and were able to explain why things happened the way they did, and what was happening through out the years of children getting older. Each study had it’s own findings and each was slightly different from the other. These studies were focused on the incidence and prevalence of bullying. These studies also were conducted in a few different continents to show the difference in many different areas of the world. The journal was able to come up with a legitimate definition of bullying which was: “where bullying is the set of physical and/ or verbal behaviors that a person or group of persons directs against a peer, in hostile, repetitive and ongoing fashion, abusing real or fictitious power, with the intent to cause harm to the victim.” When I first read this research, things started to make so much sense. I was finally able to understand why we had such people, and why they had to do what they did. It was so interesting to find out what was going on when I was much younger. The ideas were very intriguing because of how much sense was made out of them. It was interesting to see what each researcher had to say about the same issues. They were all the same subjects, but it was very interesting to see how different and same the answers became.
The one thing that I didn’t agree with was that such people actually liked being a bully and some were actually good at it. I didn’t agree that we

Bibliography: Benitez, Juan Luis and Justicia, Fernando, Bullying: Description and Analysis of the Phenomenon, Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2006, Vol. 4, pp. 151 - 170