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Identifying the Risk Factors
Published in Brian Van Brunt, Chris Taylor, Understanding and Treating Incels, 2020
It is common for attackers to experience teasing and bullying prior to an attack (Van Brunt, 2012; 2015). Bullying is a problem faced by students and continues to be identified as a factor in NTAC’s research on targeted violence in schools, with most of the attackers in their 2019 study being bullied, often as part of a persistent pattern which lasted for weeks, months, or years. They define bullying as “unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-aged children with an intent to do physical, social, or emotional harm; which involves a real or perceived power imbalance; and is, or could be, repeated” (NATC, 2019, p. 33). This can occur in various ways, including verbal, physical, social, property, and cyber. About 1/3 of attackers in their study engaged in bullying behavior themselves.
Evidence for Genetic Predispositions for Criminogenic Behavior
Published in Gail S. Anderson, Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior, 2019
Victimization is highly disadvantageous: it can result in physical and mental injury and even death, and it may result in loss of social status with consequent loss of mating opportunities. Thus, resiliency to victimization has probably always been highly advantageous, today and in our distant past. From the point of view of natural selection, people who are resilient to victimization are more likely to live longer, healthier lives and have more mate choices and therefore have greater reproductive opportunities, all of which confer an evolutionary fitness advantage.45 From a more immediate point of view, bullying causes a wide range of negative consequences, physically, psychologically, and emotionally, and can result in long-term negative sequelae.
Bullying
Published in Quentin Spender, Judith Barnsley, Alison Davies, Jenny Murphy, Primary Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2019
Quentin Spender, Judith Barnsley, Alison Davies, Jenny Murphy
Advise parents that bullying is common, and usually makes victims feel helpless — so adult help is required to sort it out. The child needs to feel able to tell his parents and teachers enough of what is going on so that they can do something. This means that: he must feel believed by his parents and professionalhe must think he is going to be believed by his teachershe must believe that his teachers will do something effective about the bullyinghe must not be further victimised by the bully or bullies because he has told someone in authority.
The Influence of Parenting Dimensions and Junior High School Students’ Involvement in Bullying
Published in Journal of School Violence, 2023
Christina M. Rinaldi, Okan Bulut, Tracy Muth, Maria Di Stasio
Bullying is typically defined as aggressive behavior involving an imbalance of power with the less-powerful person or group being repeatedly and unfairly attacked (Olweus, 1993). Peer aggression and the social dynamics of bullying is complex with children adopting different roles depending on specific situations (Zych et al., 2020). While recognizing that labeling children as bullies or victims without considering context places them in superficial categories, past research has generally distinguished among four bullying subtypes: (a) bullies are perpetrators of aggression but do not experience significant victimization by peers; (b) victims are often targets of aggression but are not perpetrators of aggressive acts; (c) bully/victims are both perpetrators and targets of aggressive behavior and may react aggressively to provocation (Holt et al., 2007); and (d) bystanders are children who are not directly involved in bullying, but
A Systematic Review of Research on School Bullying/Violence in Mainland China: Prevalence and Correlates
Published in Journal of School Violence, 2022
Previous studies have identified several major bullying types: physical bullying, verbal bullying, relational bullying, and cyberbullying. Although the rates of bullying varied significantly across different samples, these studies generally found that involvement (victimization or perpetration or both) in verbal bullying is the most prevalent, followed by either relational bullying or physical bullying, and finally cyberbullying (e.g., Hu & Li, 2019; Su et al., 2019, 2020; Wang et al., 2019; Zhao & Liu, 2016). Only two studies found that cyberbullying involvement was more frequent than other bullying forms (Peng et al., 2019; Xiao et al., 2021). Males were more frequently involved in bullying of various forms as compared with females (e.g., Wei et al., 2019; Wu et al., 2015).
Fear of Bullying and Its Effects on Mental Health among College Students: An Emerging Public Health Issue
Published in Journal of School Violence, 2021
Erin G. Grinshteyn, Reid Whaley, Marie-Claude Couture
Bullying has been defined in many ways throughout the literature (Gladden et al., 2014) but has generally been thought to be the repeated intent to harm, intimidate, or coerce and can manifest in verbal, physical, or electronic formats (Lund & Ross, 2017). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has defined bullying as, “any unwanted aggressive behavior(s) by another youth or group of youths who are not siblings or current dating partners that involves an observed or perceived power imbalance and is repeated multiple times or is highly likely to be repeated” (Gladden et al., 2014, p. 7). Modes of bullying include direct (i.e., behaviors that occur in the presence of a target of bullying) and indirect (i.e., behaviors that are not directly communicated to the target, which can include but is not limited to electronic formats) (Gladden et al., 2014). Types of bullying include physical (e.g., use of physical force to cause harm), verbal (e.g., oral or written communication that causes harm), relational (e.g., behaviors designed to hurt the reputation and relationships of the intended target), or property damage (e.g., damaging property of a target to cause harm) (Gladden et al., 2014). Face-to-face bullying is often referred to as traditional bullying.