EFFECTS OF BULLYING AMONG STUDENTS

The effects of bullying among students are more to negative effects. The school bullying is behavior intended to harm or disturb the victim, especially passiveness student. Besides that, bullying can be occur in any setting where human being interact with each other. Refer to Mona O’Moore Ph.D of Anti-Bullying Centre, Trinity Collage Dublin, said, “There is a growing body of research which indicates that individuals, whether child or adult who are persistently subjected to abusive behavior are at risk of stress related illness which can sometimes lead to suicide.” Even worse, many ignore the bullying behavior among students and never take a stand. Bullying was moving from a national problem to a national epidemic with tragic implications (Sally Jessy Raphael, 2002). That bullies can hurt people included the students. The effects of bullying can be mental or emotional and physical.

3.1 Mental (Emotional) Effects

Emotional is one part where the victims of bullying accepted that effects. Cause of bullying can make someone or victim felt emotional or mental abusing. That refer to mental or emotion pressure can being the target of bullying causes strong fellings of fear and shame to face one other people. That feeling also can make students down or low self-esteem and lead to anxiety. The effects also can make it students blame themselves for the bullying behavior and frequently others blame the victim as well (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/school_bullying). Actually, the victims of bullying have the highest despression level causes of bully. That effect can be students sad and dispirited or not happy very well. Beside that, the victims with intense feelings of vulnerability and powerlessness. They are always loner and never come out with other people or their friends. After that, this effect can become psychological trauma among students because they are really afraid with bullies. The emotional effects can common the someone of behaviors.


3.2 Physical

Other than mental or emotional effects, physical effects also can happened among students. Many things can look up from the physical effects like difference victim behaviors. That also can give the students afraid to go to the school because they are one of bullying victims. For this effects, that students felt afraid because they are has physical abusing in school like bullies punching them, shoving and attacking. The students has many injured on body and cannot be fight back. This situation always happened to weakness individual or passiveness students. Because of bullying can make it students specially, girl killed self after being teased, threatened and bullied relentlessly for a significant length of time. This level was very fearful all persons. In addition, the students often feel ill and their always skipping school or classes (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/school_bullying). Other effect is students has trouble sleeping or nightmares because bullying on them. This is because they cannot sleep on the night cause they always thinking about bullies. Besides that, the students become loner and avoid social activities including their not mingle with other people.

Beside victims of bullying effects, bullies also accept the negative effects from behaviors. The bullies behaviors during happened in school maybe they can to be a criminal like robber, aggressive actions, rapist and abusing for wife or child when they adult soon (www.safeyouth.org/scripts/topics/bullying.asp).