What Are the Consequences of Bullying in Young Children?

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What Are the Consequences of Bullying in Young Children?

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What Are the Consequences of Bullying in Young Children?

Bullying refers to aggressive and unwanted behavior among young children that shows presence of a perceived or a real power imbalance. Bullying has effects on the bully, the one being bullied, as well as witnesses. There are several negative outcomes of bullying with are both physical and mental. It is important to look at the effects of bullying on young children.

The kids who are bullied suffer the worst outcomes both in their lives physically, socially, and mentally. The first effect of the bullying is anxiety and depression. The child will experience feelings of loneliness and sadness. At the same time, the child will have a change in the eating and sleeping patterns (Fullchange & Furlong, 2016). The depression and anxiety also lead to loss of interest in the activities which they previously enjoyed. The issues in younger children will extend to their adulthood.

When young children are bullied, they experience a decline in their academic achievement. The child will lose interest in schoolwork and get less marks because they are distracted. The young children also avoid things like school activities such as sports. The children might end up skipping, missing, or dropping out of school altogether (Fullchange & Furlong, 2016).

Bullying also ends up affecting the bully in one way or another. The first effect on the bully is that they engage in fights, vandalism, and eventually drop out of the school (Cho & Lee, 2018). The young children who are bullies will get into other activities such as the vandalism if their truant behaviors go uncontrolled. The young children will end up with other criminal convictions as well as traffic citations.

The bully when he continues the behavior will end up making an abusive partner and parent when they develop into adults. It is important to control such behaviors as the aggressiveness ends up going into the personal lives. The bully is unable to form normal human relationships based on values such as love and care (Cho & Lee, 2018).

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Bullying in young children is considered a consistent pattern of abuse as well as mistreatment from colleagues, parents or even other unknown people which leads to either emotional or even physical harm. It can entail such techniques like verbal along with non-verbal, humiliation and psychological torture. Bullying during infancy is usually considered to be challenging since it operates within the child’s established laws and regulations. In most cases, bullying in young children is carried out by an individual who possesses power over the victim (Rivara & National Academies of Sciences 2016). Bullies in young children can also be peers and family. Bullying in young children can either be covert or overt.

There are a variety of negative implications that are associated with bullying in young children. Negative implications of the bullying in young children are not only felt by the targeted individual but by those surrounding the young child (DeLara et al., 2016). Bullying in young children leads to decrement in child’s morale as well as an alteration in how well they get motivated. Bullying can also be in the form of an overbearing type of parent supervision as well as frequent criticism from friends, family and other parties (Maiuro et al., 2015). This causes the child to withdraw from the family or friends and always keep to themselves. They lack the desire to interact with those close to them due to fear of being criticized or facing harshness. This is because they lose self-esteem in themselves as they are frequently put down.

Moreover, bullying in young children leads to anxiety in them. They become anxious about everything due to the fear that has been instilled in them over time from the bullying. They become anxious about going to places as they feel inadequate and do not want to associate themselves with other people and would rather lock themselves up. Nonetheless, they become stressed and this can be perceived through physical symptoms of stress in children such as frequent headaches and stomach pains (Olweus et al., 2018). Nonetheless, their performance in school drops as their concentration level goes down due to their diminished confidence and self-esteem. Furthermore, bullying in young children is associated with dire consequences that develop in the long term or in the continued bullying of the child. These impacts are chronic fatigue where the child will always complain of being tired. There is also insomnia where it becomes hard for the child to fall asleep. They may even end up having an overall feeling of hopelessness as well as worthlessness which has a huge implication on their future in terms of career and growth (Hinitz et al., 2018).

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Cho, S., & Lee, J. M. (2018). Explaining physical, verbal, and social bullying among bullies, victims of bullying, and bully-victims: Assessing the integrated approach between social control and lifestyles-routine activities theories. Children and Youth Services Review, 91, 372-382.

DeLara, E. (2016). Bullying scars: The impact on adult life and relationships.

Fullchange, A., & Furlong, M. J. (2016). An exploration of effects of bullying victimization from a complete mental health perspective. Sage Open, 6(1), 2158244015623593.

Hinitz, B. S. F. (2018). Impeding bullying among young children in international group contexts.

Maiuro, R. D. (2015). Perspectives on bullying: Research on childhood, workplace, and cyberbullying.

Rivara, F. P., In Le, M. S., National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)., & National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). (2016). Preventing bullying through science, policy, and practice.

Olweus, D. (2018). Bullying at school: What we know and what we can do. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

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