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bullying research summary this booklet is a summary of research articles published in professional journals and in the discipline update newsletter on the subject of bullying. The purpose of this booklet is to highlight for quick reference articles that address many of the issues related to bullying, including prevention and intervention. Previous   Next
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Research
has drawn attention to the problem of children who are chronically
victimized by peers. Approximately 10 percent of children
in kindergarten through high school are attacked and/or intimidated
by schoolmates on a regular basis. These attacks include
verbal aggression and/or physical aggression. Boys are only
slightly more likely than girls to serve habitually as targets
of peer abuse. Victimization is also highly stable, meaning
that the same children tend to be targets of bullying and aggression
from school year to school year. The experience of chronic
abuse from peers has been linked to a wide variety of adjustment
problems, including depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, loneliness,
rejection by peers and lack of friends. Findings in Norway
show that peer abuse during middle school years was predictive
of depression and low self-esteem 10 years later in adulthood.