Bullying is a behavior adopted by one or more students, which is repeated verbal abuse, physical and psychological to one of their partners. This abuse affects not only physically but also emotionally causing the victim to transform your life dramatically.
Characteristics of Bullying
- Usually includes behaviors of various types (teasing, threats, physical assaults, systematic isolation, etc.)..
- Tends to cause recurring problems and continue for some time.
- It is usually caused by a student, supported by a group against a victim who is defenseless.
- Stays out of ignorance or passivity of the people around the aggressors and victims without intervening directly.
- The victim develops fear and rejection of the context in which violence is suffering, loss of confidence in himself and others, and decreased school performance.
- Decreases the capacity of moral understanding and empathy of the abuser, while there is a reinforcement of a violent style of interaction.
- In people who observe violence without doing anything to avoid it, there is lack of awareness, apathy and lack of solidarity.
- Reduced quality of life of the environment in which it occurs: difficulty achieving goals and increasing problems and tensions.
