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Home Tips > Tips By Category > Tips you can implement daily Bullying can occur in any setting where human beings interact with each other. This includes school, the workplace, home and neighborhoods. Bullying can exist between social groups, social classes and even between countries
Characteristics of bullies:
Research indicates that adults who bully have personalities that are authoritarian, combined with a strong need to control or dominate. It has also been suggested that a deficit in social skills and a prejudicial view of subordinates can be particular risk factors.
Researchers have identified other risk factors such as quickness to anger and use of force, addiction to aggressive behaviors, mistaking others' actions as hostile, concern with preserving self image, and engaging in obsessive or rigid actions.
Bullying may also be "tradition" in settings where an age group or higher rank feels superior than lowerclassmen.
It is often suggested that bullying behavior has its origin in childhood: If aggressive behavior is not challenged in childhood, there is a danger that it may become habitual.
Bullying does not necessarily involve criminality or physical violence. Bullying often operates through psychological abuse or verbal abuse.
Bullying can often be associated with street gangs, especially at school.
Strategies to reduce bullying within schools:
- Make adults aware of the situation and involve them
- Make it clear that bullying is never acceptable
- Hold a school conference day devoted to bully/victim problems
- Increase adult supervision in the yard, halls and washrooms more vigilantly
- Emphasize caring, respect and safety
- Emphasize consequences of hurting others
- Enforce consistent and immediate consequences for aggressive behaviors
- Follow up on all instances of aggression
- Improve communication among school administrators, teachers, parents and students
- Have a school problem box where kids can report problems, concerns and offer suggestions
- Teach cooperative learning activities
- Help bullies with anger control and the development of empathy
- Encourage positive peer relations
- Offer a variety of extracurricular activities which appeal to a range of interests
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