Bullying Behavior in School and

its Effect on Achievement

Timothy Sinatra Sinaga

Student of Senior High School Bintang Timur
Pematangsiantar.
[email protected]

Abstract
Bullying is an act of using power to bring any harm into a person or some people
who is either verbally,physically,and psychologically victimized,traumatized,and
helpless (Sejiwa, 2008).Teens who are intended to be a victims of bullying are at
greater risk of health problems, both physically and mentally. As for problems
more likely to be suffered by the victims of intimidation include various mental
problem such as depression, anxiety and sleep problems that may be carried into
adulthood physical health, pathologies such as headaches, abdominal pain and
muscle load, and decreasing spirit of learning and academic achievement. In
ceritain cases, victims of bullying may show violent characteristics. This article is
intended to find out the causes of bullying by students, roles in bullying, and types
of bullying. In this article the result of factory that effect the accurence of
bullying come from indivuduals, families, play groups, to the comunity of
perpetrator. This action is closely related to the world of social work,which they
should be activate their role as a conselor for cutting the bully behavior off.
Key words: bullying, victims bully, intimidation.
Introduction
Bullying comes from the word Bully, which is a word that refers to the notion of a
"threat" made by someone to another person (who is generally weaker or "lower"
than the perpetrator), which causes psychological disturbances for the victim (the
victim is called a bully boy or bully girl). ) in the form of stress (which appears in
the form of physical or psychological disorders, or both; for example, difficulty
eating, physical pain, fear, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and others).
Moreover, bullying usually lasts for a long time (years) so it is very likely to
affect the victim psychologically. Actually, in addition to the feelings above, a
victim of bullying also feels angry and upset with what happened to them. There
are also feelings of anger, shame and disappointment in themselves for "allowing"
the incident to happen to them. However, they have no power to "resolve" this
matter, including not daring to report the perpetrator to an adult for fear of being
labeled a coward, a snitch, or even blamed.
Bullying occurs in different places, including schools and workplaces. The United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child takes protection from abuse
seriously as a prerequisite for a child's quality of life, and it is the child's right. In
recent decades fight against bullying, but the fight is not easy. In human groups,
power relationships are universal. The position of power should be managed non-
abusively, but some people take advantage of their position in exploiting power.
The bully is tempted to distress the less powerful person repetitively. Therefore,
bully-victim relationships are normatively in the sense that they are strictly
limited. They are likely to be found in any relatively successful human group
challenging for someone to leave if they are victimized.
Bullying can be verbal, physical, online, or exclusion. Verbal bullying is in oral or
written form, including calling names, threatening to harm, inappropriate sexual
comments, and abusive language. Physical bullying includes kicking, hitting,
spitting, pinching, breaking the victim's belongings, rude gestures, and even
ripping. Online or social bullying is about harming one’s reputation through
phones, computers, and social media platforms. Exclusion is whereby one is left
out in activities, persuading people against a victim, public embarrassment, and
spreading false rumors. Verbal bullying is the most common type, although online
bullying is also on the rise.
Litulature Review
Bullying is a serious issue, especially in schools affecting children and
adolescents, which have short and long-term effects on the bully, the victim, and
those who observe these bullying events. Bullying can be direct or indirect, and
therefore children and adolescents experience different types of bullying. The
effects are physical, behavioral, mental, and health and affect the victim's
academic performance and achievement (Rivara & Le Menestrel, 2014). Being
bullied makes the victim incredibly insecure. When one is bullied, they are
frequently on guard and insecure such that even when one is not being bullied
actively, they are aware it can start anytime. A victim's emotional and mental
well-being is affected where he/she feels isolated, unaccepted, withdrawn, and
angry. The victim is always thinking about how they can run away from the bully,
making them have constant tension and may therefore miss out from being in
environments exposed to bullying.
Victims of bullying suffer academically because they are unable to focus on their
school works. Once a child starts being bullied, their grades start slipping. Kids
are preoccupied by bullying, that they fail to pay focus to academics, including
doing their assignments (Dresler-Hawke & Whitehead, 2013). They will also give
their parents excuses, all aimed at missing school and classes to avoid being
bullied, which affects their grades, further increasing their stress.
Bullying victims fear the environment they are bullied, including school, as they
consider it unsafe and unhappy. Some even go to extreme levels of absence seem
and dropping out of school. Those who choose to remain have low self-esteem,
anxiety, and even depression. Due to the fear, some victims turn to produce
different physical and emotional ailments (Omoteso, 2010). Such consequences
may follow them even when they get into adulthood, whereby they cannot express
themselves or relate well. These effects affect not only the bullies but also
children who witness bullying. They suffer from a less secure learning
environment out of the fear that they may be the next victims and the thoughts
that parents and teachers may be unwilling or unable to control these bullies'
behavior
Previous Study
In the school environment, the teacher who is most aware of daily events days and
intervene when bullying occurs, teachers must have good understanding of
bullying behavior and social context as preventive measures. The teacher is also a
class manager and creates a class climate. It is proven by a study conducted by
Rolland and Galloway (2001) that social relations and educational climate in the
classroom affect the amount of bullying experienced by class members. They
must know how to use the information obtained is included in the regulations
school (Juvonen, 2003), because bullying has a negative effect on mental and
physical health of children. It is often thought that fights and conflicts that are
actually a form of bullying as a problem individuals who do not require a
collective response (Juvonen, 2003), so that handling is less serious.
The purpose of students bullying in the school environment is to looks strong and
popular, negotiations new environment, as well as tactics to gain power and
prestige in peer groups. In addition, children do bullying aims to earn money, but
it is known that Most bullies come from middle-class families above and have no
financial problems, they do bullying over basis for obtaining satisfaction.
However, based on research findings that problems related to bullying tend to be
related to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status and culture.
Research Methods
The method used in this study is descriptive analysis, by looking for things related
to bullying that occur at school. Bullying is one of the problems in school and is
difficult to eliminate. Bullying has become a widespread concern, but bullying has
not shown a decline. There are many negative effects caused by bullying, both
from people who suffer from bullying and victims of bullying. Guidance and
counseling teachers as important actors in the world of education need to obtain
information to overcome this problem. Because if the behavior of bullying has
become a common thing to do, it will result in the education process not being
good. Everyone is free to take action that will cause disruption of the education
process at school. In conditions like this, guidance and counseling are very
important in improving and eliminating the bullying behavior that exists in school.
That way, the conditions that should be created in the school environment, namely
mutual respect and respect.
Finding and discussion

Bullying can be overcome by preventing early childhood, family, school, and

community. Here are some ways to deal with bullying:

Childhood

Give knowledge and ways to be able to fight bullying, give examples of ways
such as supporting, conciliating, and reporting to adults to help victims of bullying

Family

Instill love and religious values in children, pay attention and interact with
children to provide courage and assertive abilities, help children to develop
socialization skills, be confident, and assertive, teach caring and ethics to others,
accompany children to view information on social media or television

Overcoming Bullying at School

Educators create anti-bullying prevention programs and punishments for
perpetrators who commit such acts, build discussions and lectures on overcoming
the actions, provide assistance and support to victims of bullying.

Conclusions and Suggestions

Bullying is a common thing, especially in schools. It is characterized by a power
hierarchy where some children feel that they belong to a higher power level than
others hence abusing them in one way or another. Bullying is not a one-time
thing, as the bullies do it repetitively. Bullying can occur in different forms,
including physical abuse, verbal abuse, alienation, or even online/cyberbullying.
The effects of cyberbullying are both short-term and long-term and affect the
victim, the bully, and their peers. The victims suffer the most impact as their
physical health can be harmful; they can get anxiety, stress, and depression,
ending up being always angry or withdrawn. They are still full of fear, which
turns their attention from books, and may even hate school, which leads to poor
academic performance. To the extreme, the victims have suicidal thoughts, and
some of them commit suicide. The bullies are unlikely to drop this behavior and,
therefore, contribute to a chaotic society as they harass their workmates and
engage in abusive relationships. Also, their peers who are present as bullying
occurs may fear being at school as they are helpless in defending their peers from
bullying.
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