All About Bullying

When the term bullying comes up usually the first thing that comes to mind is two younger kids picking on each other. Whether that be someone saying unkind words to someone else or physical contact. Neither is socially acceptable, yet when kids are young, they are expected to grow out of bullying, and it's just a phase. When it isn’t outgrown, it becomes a problem, so many adolescents are struggling with bullying and it's leading from depression even to suicide. “Adolescents are more likely to experience more severe depression when they are bullied more frequently, and some victims of bullying may even become perpetrators of bullying, harming peers or others” (Man, X., Liu, J., & Xue, Z.* para. 2, 2022). There have been a multitude of different studies between genders, races, etc. Here is a study performed by Turner et al in 2013:

Focusing on the effect of different forms of bullying on adolescent mental health under the gender group. For example, Turner et al. (2013) selected 1874 students from middle and high schools in North Carolina to explain the results of the effects of different forms of bullying (physical, verbal, and cyber) on mental health (including depression and suicidal intention) and found that females had higher levels of depression after cyberbullying compared with males, and there was no significant difference in suicidal intent after either form of bullying for either males or females. (Man, X., Liu, J., & Xue, Z.* para. 3, 2022)