Effects of Bullying on Students at the Primary Level

Effects of Bullying on Students at the Primary Level

Through research, one can safely deduce that bullying; regardless of the structure has many changing negative symptoms on its exploited people. Physical Bullying can render physical scars and pain while cyberbullying and verbal bullying leave mental scars.

Academic - Many articles have made implications that there is a strong correlation between bullying and academic achievement. The Dupage County Regional Office of Education et al. (2011), even defines bullying as “to otherwise substantially interfere in a student’s academic performance or ability to participate in any school-related activity” (p.5). Victims of bullying develop issues to remain focused on classroom activities. The victims will invent numerous excuses to stay at home all in the pursuit to avoid any contact with their predators. Barrington (2018) shares the result of a UCLA survey, which showed the direct relationship between bullying and academic progress, “students who are repeatedly bullied receive poorer grades and participate less in class discussions… students may get mislabeled as low achievers because they do not want to speak up in class for fear of getting bullied”. Juvenon also remarked that “Once students get labeled as ‘dumb,’ they get picked on and perform even worse”.

Depression -

As the previous article referenced, students that get bullied do not want to speak up in the classroom, this reservation transfers into the home and leisure activities. This creates the beginning of the spiraling of a person’s demeanor. A survey conducted in East London with a sample of students between the age of 11 to 14 revealed that “27.3% of the sample had depressive symptoms... Those bullied in the last term were approximately one and a half times more likely to have depressive symptoms”.

Suicide - From a religious perspective, acts of self-directed harmful behavior with any intent to end one’s life are one of the few unforgivable sins, could this sin be now forgiven if it comes as the result of bullying? Research uncovered that there is an increase in the occurrence of adolescent suicide and bullying. There are numerous articles that explicitly show suicidal attempts as a direct result of bullying. Physical scars and depression can be adjusted/solved with modern-day medicine, but the resolution of suicide is determined by religious beliefs. Suicide can be deemed as the worst effect of bullying. “Bullying was present in 6 deaths (8.1%) and it was the only identified contributing factor in fewer than 5 deaths.” Sinyor, M., Schaffer, A., & Cheung, A. H. (2014).