Heinous Campus Violence
Several months ago, a video of bullying among middle school students in Jiangsu Yixing was exposed: four female middle school students slapped a weak girl in the face and asked her to kneel down and shout "Dad, I'm wrong." During the process, the perpetrator kept asking the perpetrator to "give me a laugh" and "Don't cry! Hold back"; one of the girls slapped the girl three times and asked "What's wrong?" Another perpetrator also shouted: "Do you want me to call the police? They can't find me even if they call the police." Afterwards, the police intervened in the investigation and found that the victim Ji was a 13-year-old junior high school student in Yixing, and the other four female girls were only twelve or thirteen years old, and they were both middle school students. Over the years, campus violence or bullying videos/reports have flooded the Internet, and it looks heartbreaking and chilling.
Campus violence is also called school bullying (School Bullying is often used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and it is probably derived from an English homophone), which refers to the repeated violent harm of bullies or a group of bullies to the bullies. In addition to various physical injuries such as attack and beating, it also includes verbal abuse, insult, slander, insult, insult, insult, instigation and forced to do things against the will, etc., and also includes indecent and sexual assault on the bullies.
Student bullying can occur in any interpersonal interaction place, including schools, streets, suburbs, public places, communities, etc., that is, campus violence is just a general term, it can occur in any possible place.
It is not difficult to see that bullies usually have higher power than those who are bullied, such as social power (group status), physical fitness, and discipline rights (positions owned). School bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to complex group bullying, which must include one or more bullies, as well as facilitators who may not necessarily participate in every bullying incident. Some children are coerced to participate in group bullying.
bullying usually causes varying degrees of physical, psychological, social adaptation to the bullied person. The most common ones are anger, fear, humiliation, depression, constant stress, suicide intentions, and even suicide.
There are reports of campus violence/bullying in all countries around the world, so campus bullying has attracted widespread attention and definition and qualitative controversy from all walks of life, among which cultural characteristics and economic development level play an important impact.
The characterization of campus bullying behavior meets at least the following criteria:
◆ Hostile:
If the harm caused by a bully is intentional, not accidental or one or two times.
◆ Power imbalance:
means the actual or perceived power/status inequality between the bully and the victim.
◆ Repeat:
means that violence and bullying occur many times over a period of time.
◆ victims are distressed:
victims suffer varying degrees of psychological, social or physical trauma.
◆ Provocation:
refers to bullying being driven by the aggressive behavior or interests of the perpetrator.
Generally speaking, teenage bullying behavior has these characteristics:
◆ Boys and girls both bully, but they are more common in boys;
◆ Most boys will only be bullied by boys, while girls will be bullied by boys and girls;
◆ Verbal attack is the most common way of bullying;
◆ Boys tend to be physically attacked, while girls mainly use verbal insults, spread rumors, social isolation, and group bullying.
Therefore, over time, most victims will suffer from physical and mental trauma and psychological disorders.
Main reasons: The causes of campus violence are extremely complex and broad. In summary, there are several aspects:
1. Gender differences
Usually boys are more aggressive, so fights between students are more common in boys, so bullying behaviors are more likely to form among boys. Children with domineering behaviors are more likely to bully weak boys and girls, and boys bully girls are more common.In many cultures, there are explicit or implicit sexism, or norms and limitations of gender behavior, which shape the dominant consciousness/status of men and women’s inferiority/compliance, and generalize and perpetuate these norms through violence. This can be seen from the fact that adult men abuse women or domestic violence.
2 is the improper parenting experience of the family
Improper parenting methods of parents in native families may lead to children becoming school abusers. Children who have been abused/corporal punishment from childhood or witnessed violent behavior between parents are more likely to show aggressive behavior. In addition, family factors are also closely related to becoming a victim. Studies have found that boys who are prone to bullying are generally overly close to their parents in family relationships, and their parents tend to be overprotected/pampered; while female victims are more from families with emotional abuse. Parental raising rejection, indifference, domestic violence and education can easily cause children to solidify negative emotions, such as anger, hostility, excessive alertness, over-response to stimulation, etc. They are more likely to attack other children through internalization (or imitation) behavior in school, or to vent frustration and revenge on other weak children.
Third, the campus atmosphere
Children who commit violence on campus may have problems such as poor academic performance, bored study, frequent corporal punishment in school, ADHD, etc. These children are prone to aversion to learning and boredom, and there is nothing else to do except bully others or choose a specific "soft persimmon". If the school and teachers ignore or improperly suggest it, it will aggravate bullying among students.
Interestingly, if teachers criticize, punish or humiliate some introverted and weak students in public, they are also prone to becoming the target of "prank" and bullying for other children. If the school "turn a blind eye" to bullying among classmates or has no time to take care of it, or if the teachers lack sufficient intervention ability, the bullying behavior will continue and escalate. When the school spirit is bad, it is easier to encourage gangs among students to bully the weak, or form violent gangs to abuse others. In order to evade punishment, group violence is quite hidden. Bad school spirit can also easily attract bad gangs of young people around the school, waiting for an opportunity to start from school students.
4 is the problem of students themselves
Some children with poor learning, weak constitution, timid and introverted personality, mild autism, unique and ostentatious personality, social difficulties, emotional troubles, spoiled habits, low stress resistance, heavy dialect, lack of physical appearance, or children from mobile families, single-parent families, and frequent transfers to schools are particularly prone to being bullied, and the degree of harm is more severe and lasts longer. It is reported that in countries such as Europe and the United States, immigrants or children of color are easily bullied.
Economic losses
International community survey found that the economic losses caused by campus violence are huge. In Brazil , the serious consequences of teenage violence cost nearly $19 billion a year, of which $943 million is related to violence in schools. It is estimated that school-related violence causes $7.9 billion to the U.S. economy annually. Analysis by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) shows that gender discrimination and violence with schools alone can affect and reduce the overall level of primary school education, with annual costs as much as US$17 billion, which is almost equivalent to the annual GDP of a middle-income country. In Argentina , children dropping out of school due to violence can cause a national GDP loss of 11.4%. It is estimated that in East Asia and the Pacific, economic losses caused by violence and child abuse amount to 1.4% to 2.5% of the region's annual GDP.
Teacher Jing said that in the short term, children who are bullied may feel frustrated, anxious, angry, overstressed, learned helplessness (that feeling that the sky should not be called unsatisfied), and feel that their lives have collapsed and their academic performance has dropped significantly; their behavior tends to avoid going to school and fear going to school. Continuous harm usually leads to depression, develop suicidal thoughts and suicide, such as our neighboring countries, Japan and South Korea, have reported in this regard.
children who have not participated but witnessed bullying will also feel angry, fear, sadness, pity and helplessness, and they will also have the same negative emotions as the victim children.
In the long run, victimized children have a persistent sense of insecurity, lack trust in teachers and classmates, are unwilling to interact with each other, are extremely sensitive and over-alert. Children with susceptible qualities can cause more serious psychological disorders, such as mental disorders such as avoidant personality disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or develop other health problems, such as greed and obesity, decreased appetite, sleep disorders, persistent hostility, and retaliatory aggression, which sometimes leads them to torture others.
bullying teenagers and victims have bad emotional feelings, such as anxiety, depression and psychosocial symptoms. It has been reported that children and adolescents involved in long-term bullying are more likely to be alcoholic and substance/drug dependence at the age of 18 and beyond.
In the long run, most bullying adolescents have damaged their emotional or empathy ability after adulthood. They lack compassion, are cold-hearted, have antisocial tendencies or criminal behaviors, and even if they get married and have children, they have domestic violence. Obviously, their quality of life after adulthood is not much better, and they are prone to "destroying their lives" due to their bad habits and behaviors.
In general society, bullying the weak is common. "Herdesity psychology" will trigger children who have no bad behaviors are willing to participate in group bullying, which seems to be in line with some "instinctive behavior" of human beings, and experience "pleasure" in attacking bullying behavior, thereby strengthening their own bullying behavior. The unconscious behavior of the group described in Gustav's book "The Moon" reflects the "virtue" of human beings.
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