Preliminary Considerations for Bullying

Annotated Bibliography

Adiesa Burgess

Ms. Simmons

HSSC-390

06 February 2023

Abstract

Bullying has become a major issue in many areas, particularly in schools which have negatively affected many students. Different people have different perspectives about bullying hence is important for relevant stakeholders to understand other people's viewpoints in order to develop effective anti-bullying programs. There are several ways teachers and schools as a whole can develop effective interventions which can help deal with bullying appropriately besides involving bystanders in solving the problem.

Thornberg, R., & Delby, H. (2019). How do secondary school students explain bullying? Educational Research, 61(2), 142–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2019.1600376

This source is important in the research because in order to effectively deal with bullying, there are certain things that must be understood, including the understanding of students about bullying. The study involved conducting interviews, which was considered the most effective way of collecting data. Its findings are mainly centered on the data obtained from young persons who had initially encountered bullying.

Gaffney, H., Ttofi, M. M., & Farrington, D. P. (2021). What works in anti-bullying programs? Analysis of effective intervention components. Journal of School Psychology, 85(85), 37–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2020.12.002

This article is a crucial source because it focuses on what works well in anti-bullying programs through an analysis of effective intervention components. It outlines how school bullying has always been a major public health concern besides affecting many people in the community. The study in this article presents other analyses of a recent large meta-analysis of the efficiency of school-bullying intervention programs.

Rigby, K. (2020). How Teachers Deal with Cases of Bullying at School: What Victims Say. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7), 2338. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072338

Although there are various ways through which teachers can deal with cases of bullying at school, this article focuses on student victims of peer bullying in order to outline the specific steps their school implemented to deal with bullying. It shows a statistical analysis of how cases of bullying stopped or reduced due to the interventions that were implemented.

Hart Barnett, J. E., Fisher, K. W., O’Connell, N., & Franco, K. (2019). Promoting upstander behavior to address bullying in schools. Middle School Journal, 50(1), 6–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2018.1550377

According to the article, the act of targeting the bystander and giving them the tools and encouragement to intervene needs to be a crucial element of bullying interventions. It is reliable and accurate because it provides practical and research-based steps for teachers to model and motivate upstander behavior, especially with students.

Li, L., Chen, X., & Li, H. (2020). Bullying Victimization, School Belonging, Academic Engagement and Achievement in Adolescents in Rural China: A Serial Mediation Model. Children and Youth Services Review, 104946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104946

The primary goal of the study was to outline how bullying victimization affects the academic achievement of adolescents. The research reported a greater level of bullying victimization, while girls reported lower levels of school belonging and academic engagement.