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The Effect of Bullying to the Selected Grade 8 Learners Academic Performance

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A Research Study Presented to the

Facuity of the Mayamot National High School

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In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for English 10

by:

Blanco,Cristine G.

Busante,Charmaine Leorine L.

Javier,Frences Melyn B.

Reigo,Jasmine

Gaviola,Gerald

Galigo,Richard A.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to extend our herfelt appreciation to the following individuals for their

invaluable support and aassistance in this project.

 For our Parents for Believing and Supporting for this project

 Our Advires , Kheycee Conejos Thank you to Support and encourage us to do what

needs to be done we never forget your support and kindness to us

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Bullying is every common, complex and potentially damaging form of violince among

children and adolescents. Bullying is defined as unwanted,aggressive behavior,which

Involves a real or perceived social power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, over time

(therefore, the definition excludes occasional or minor incidents). These actions are

purposeful and intended to hurt or make the victims uncomfortable. Bullying may

manifest itself in many forms. It can be physicl, verbal, relational, or cyber; it can be

subtle and elusive. The most common form of bullying both for boys and girls is verbal

bullying such as name-calling. Although bullying is more common in schools, it can

occur anywhere. It often occurs in unstructured areas such as playgrounds, cafeterias,

hallways, and buses. In recent years, cyber bullying has received increased attention, as

electronic devices have become more common. Bullying through electronic means,

although prevalent, rank third after verbal bullying and physical bullying. In general,

bullying is a common type of social experience that children refers to as ”getting picked

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DEFINITION OF TERMS

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1. Effect

Definition: A change that results when something is done or happen: an event, conditon,

or state of affairs that is produced by a cause

2.Bullying

Definition: The Repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group, where the

relationship involves an imblance of power

3.Academic performance

Definition: Academic achievement or academic performance is the extent to which a

student, teacher or institution has attained their short or long-term educational goals
 CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

World Health Organization defines bullying as a threat or physical use of force, aiming

at the individual, another person, a specific community or group which can result in

injury, death, physical damage, some development disorders or deficiency. The concept

of bullying at school is not new; however it has been increasing in recent years. There is a

crucial increase in studies conducted and the number of news on bullying at school in

mass media (1-3). Bullying in schools is an issue that continues to receive attention from

researchers, educators, parents, and students. Despite the common assumption that

bullying is a normal part of childhood and encompasses minor teasing and harassment

(4), researchers increasingly find that bullying is a problem that can be detrimental to

students' well-being (5-7). This report focuses not only on the prevalence of bullying, but

also on those subsets of students who reported being the victims of direct, and indirect

bullying, and both of them. Different types of bullying may affect different groups of

students, occur in different types of schools, or affect student behavior in different ways.

These distinctions allow readers to differentiate between students who were either

physically (directly) or socially (indirectly) bullied, and also to identify those students

who were bullied both physically and socially (4). Additional analysis describes the

characteristics of students affected by these types of behavior and the characteristics of

schools in which these behaviors occur. Because of prior research that suggests victims of

bullying may resort to aggressive behaviors in response to being bullied, the extent to

which reports of bullying are related to victim behaviors such as weapon carrying,

physical fights, fear, and avoidance are explored. Finally, for educators, the academic

success of students is of paramount importance. For this reason, self-reported academic

performance of bullied students is also examined (5,8). The main aim of this research is

to investigate the prevalence of bullying behaviour, its victims and the types of bullying

and places of bullying among 14-17 year-old adolescents in a sample of school children

in Bursa, Turkey. Bullying is a psychological and pedagogical problem connected with

public health. It must be solved by various professionals immediately.

Bullying is the act of continual abuse where one party tries to enforce its power over

another. It is a serious problem especially in school. Lot is experiencing this often to the

teenagers. Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidates or

aggressively dominates others. It is learned behavior and detrimental to the academic,

physical, social and emotional development of all involved the bullies, targets and the

people who witness it. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. Behaviors used to

assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or

coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly toward particular targets. The victims

experience the physical, verbal and social bullying that tempt them to depress. Bullying is

divided into three basic types of abuse; the emotional, verbal and physical. It can also

define in many different ways. Bullying can occur in any context in which human beings

interact with each other. This includes school, church, family, the workplace, home and

neighborhoods. It is even in a common push factor in migration. Bullying can exist

between social groups, social classes and even between countries. Bullying in school and

the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse. Many students were getting involved to

this problem and affected by bullying. The purpose of the researchers why they study this

topic is to make the other people realize that too much bullied can cause an effect to the

students.

Everywhere, bullying happens. The most serious place where bullying happens is at

school. There are many places in school that bullying happens, like hallways, restroom,

classrom,canteen and others. School bullying is a widespread issue which affects students

in several ways. Bullying in school sometimes consist of a group of students taking

advantage of or isolating one students in particular and graining the loyalty of witness,

who, in some cases want to avoid becoming the next victim. Victims of school bullying

are known to be at risk in peer relationships and to sometimes use ineffective coping

strategies, but little previous research has examined differences among escaped victims,

continuing victims and new victims. Bullying is one of the problems that the society is
facing today. Although the government sector implemented laws against bullying but

still, the cases of bullying getting higher. There are kinds of bullying but the researches

will focus in school bullying because most of the time children are in school.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study focused on effects of bullying on the students. Specifically, answer to the

following questions would be seen through material resources

1) Have you ever experienced being bullied at school

2) Have your academic performance affected because of bullying

3) During this academic session how many times have you been bullied?

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This research might help the following people to know how to deal with the problem of

bullying and its obvious consequences and effects on the students. Students: To know

how bullying affects them and how to handle bullying Parents: To know the signs if their

children experience bullying in school and how they will help children who are being

bullied. Teachers: To know the students who are experiencing bullying in class.

Institutions: To seek for the answers on how to avoid bullying among the children and to

help the victims of bullying. Peers: To know the effects and consequences of bullying

and being bullied.

SCOPE AND LIMITATION

Bullying is still a big problem in our community, especially in school. In fact, the rate of

students being bullied in school is getting higher and higher every year. This study

directly concerns bullies and those who are bullied. This study aims to deepen our

knowledge on why and how bullies act that way and its cause and effect. Moreover, the

results of this study can be used as future references for further investigation on bullying.
Researchers will also design action plans that may be propose to lessen the bullying of

students.
 CHAPTER TWO

Reviews of Related Literature and Studies According to some findings, the existence of

bullying at school has become a worldwide phenomenon and a problem that can create

negative impacts for the general school atmosphere and for the rights of students to learn

in a safe environment without fear. Bullying can also have negative lifelong

consequences both for students who bully and for their victims. Although formal research

as well as intervention programs to prevent bullying have been taking place for decades

in some developed countries, the problems associated with bullying have been also

discussed all over the world whenever formal schooling environment exist. It is likely

that bullying has gone on at schools for as long as schools have existed. Many parents

and teachers have become more determined that action must be taken to stop severe

bullying. It is clear that bullying can blight the life of many pupils who experience it,

while those pupils who set away with bullying others are learning various at odds with

any proper preparation for citizenship. Schools have become increasingly aware that

bullying is a problem to be addressed, and that doing so openly will get grateful

recognition from parents and pupils. According to the study of the Queensland

Department of Education and Training that being bullied can result in a person feeling

miserable and powerless, so the response of those around that person is important in

making a change. According to the study of the National Education Association that there

are many ways how to prevent bullying. We may be aware if the bullying can happen to

you. Be pay attention on it. There are many warning signs that may point to a bullying

problem, such as unexplained injuries, lost or destroyed personal item, changes in eating

habits, and avoidance of school or other social situations. However, every student may

not exhibit warning signs, or may go to great lengths to hide it. This is where paying

attentions most valuable. Engage students on a daily basis and ask open-ended questions

that encourage conversation. According to the study of Perren that child could be been a

victim all through childhood and when emerging into adolescence or adulthood decides

it is time to take control, control over others. Perren (2005) states that research has found

that children who bully others, but are also bullied themselves form a sub-group that is

called aggressive victims, proactive victims or bully-victims

There is a strong link between bullying and suicide, as suggested by recent bullying

related suicides in the US and other countries. Parents, teachers and students learn the

dangers of bullying and help students who may be at risk of commiting suicides. In the

recent years, a series of bullying - related suicides in the US and across the globe have

drawn attention to the connection between bullying and suicide. Though too mannnny

adults still see bullying as just part of being kid, it is a serious problem that leads to many

negative effects for victims, including suicides. Many people may not realize that there is

also a link between being bullyand commiting suicide.

According to the centers for Disease control, suicide is the third leading cause of death

among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year. For every suicide among

young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts over 14% of high school students

have considered suicide and almost 7% have attempted it. According to studies by Yale

University, bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely considered suicides tham

non-victims. A study in Britain found at least half of suicides among young people are

related to bullying. 10 to 14 years old gilrs may be at even higher risk for suicide.

According to statistics reported by ABC news, nearly 30%, a English schoolgirl from the

Allenton suburb of Derby, became w idespred news when tha cause was blamed on

bullying to which she had been subjected by other local children. She was reported to be

the victim or repeated harrasment and tauting, particularly about her weight. Matters

came to a head in September 1997, when a group of youths reportedly gathered at

Yeoman’s home on several consecutive nights, on each occasion throwing food at the

house and shouting taunts aimed at Yeomans. This prompted Yeomans to tell her family.

“I have had enough and I’m going to take an overdose”. Five youths between the ages of

13 and 17 were convicted of intentionally harassing Yeomans in the months leading up to

her death. According to Amanda Todd (1996-2012), age 15, Canadian highschool

student who commited suicide by hanging due to schoold bullies and cyber bullying. She

commited suicide at the age of 15 at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia,

Canada, Prior to her death, Todd d posted a video on YouTube in which she used a seried

of flash
Cards to tell her experience of allegedly being blackmailed into exposing haer breats via

webcam; bullied; and physically assaulted. The video went viral after her death, resulting

in interrnational media attention. The video has had more than 19 million views as of

May 2015. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and British Columbia Coroners Service

launched investigations into the suicide. At the time of her death, Todd was a grade 10

students in CABE Secondary in Coquitlam, a school that caters to students who have

experienced social and behavior issues in previous educational settings. In response to the

death, Christy Clark, the premier of Brirish Columbia, made an online statement of

condolence and suggested a national discussion on crminalizing cybers bullying. Also, a

motion was introduced in the Canadian House of Commons to propose a study of the

scope of bullying in Canada, and for more funding and support for anti-bullying

organizations. Todd’s mother Carol established the Amanda Todd Trust, receing

donations to support anti-bullying awareness education and programs for young people

with mental health problems.

TRUANCY

Closely related to the issue of a child’s relationship with school is the matter of bullying.

Bullying is a prime component in the making an unsafe school environment; If a child

does not feel safe at school or on the way to/from school, they are much more likely to

become truant. Bullying occurs for many reason and it goes beyond the one isolated

instance of harassment either because of teacher’s inability to control, or problems arising

from the child’s own personality or learning abilities. A parent might say they are

keeping their child off school because they’re being bullied. The school might call it

trauncy. Boysbare ony slightly more likely to be sent to court for trauncy than girls.

According to juvenie court statistics collected by the National Center for Juvenile Justice,

54% of all petitioned trauncy cases between 1990 and 1999 were males, and 46% were

for females, [Source: Puzzanchera, C, et.al., Juvenile Court Statistics 1999, National

Center for Juvenile Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, July

2003.

According to the research by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

trauncy rates in UK schools are higher than those in other developed nations but the

Government insist it has cut the number of pupils classed as persistenly absent. British
school children were more likely to miss lessons than the international average; it

emerged, with traunts falling a year behind those with regular attendance in math exams.

The study showed that 18% of pupils sitting a ne test had “skipped a day of school in the

two weeks” prior to the exam .

According to Lietta Ryan that bullying can results in reluctance to go to school and

truancy, headaches and stomach pains, reduced appetite, shame,anxiety,irritability,

aggression and depression are also frequent effects. Bullying is a direct attack on a

student’s status, sense of belonging and core identity, and often results in low self-

esteem. The effects of bullying often continue many years into adulthood. In the most

extrem cases,targets have taken out their anger and despair through school shootings or

by commiting suicide. For the school, the costs of bullying are countless hours consumed

in tackling a problem that is resistant to change, truancies, reduced student retention, low

teacher mrale, negative perceptions of the school by the wider community and parent

hostility. The school campus becomes a place where many kids are marginalized and

where no one feels safe. As a students becme aliented from school, academic

performance delines. Schools are increasingly sued for falling to provide a safe learning

environment and are being held liable for the harassment, violence and suicides cause by

bullying.

According to the study of the advice line article school truancy is a common outcome of

bullying. Bullied children prefer to risk getting caught bunking off school than to get

caught by the bullies. There are many causes of truancy ranging from violent antisocial

behavior, to boedom and disaffection, to escaping daily bullying which schools are

failing to deal with. Not everyone is academically minded, and academic qualifications

are one of the poorest indicators of potential.

DISCRIMINATION

Despite significant attention to the medical impacts of obesity, often ignored are the

negative outcomes that obese children and adults experience as a results of sigma,bias,

and discrimanation. Obese individuals are frequently sigmatized because of their weight

and many domains of daily life. Research spanning several decades has documented

consistent weight bias and stigmatization in employment, health care, school, the media,

and interpersonal relationships. For overweight and obese youth, weight stigmatization
(including depression, anxiety, low-esteem, body dissarisfaction, suicidal) translate into

persuasive victtimization, teasing and bullying. Multiple adverse outcomes are associated

with exposure to weight stigmatization including depression, anxiety, low self-esteem,

body dissatisfaction, suicidal ideation, poor academic performance, low physical activiy,

maladaptive eating behaviors and avoidance of health cares. This review summarizes the

nature and extent of weight stigmatization against overweight and obese individuals as

well as the resulting consequences that these experiences create for social, phychological,

and physical health for children and adults who are targeted. It can result in reluctance to

go to school and truancy, headaches and stomach pains, reduced appetite, shame, anxiety,

irritability, aggression and depression are also frequent effects. Bullying is a direct attack

on a student’s status, sense of belonging and core identity, an often results in low self-

esteem. The effects of bullyinng often continue many years into adulthood. In the most

extreme cases, targets have taken out their anger and despair through school shootings or

by commiting suicide.

Accordimg to a study at Yale University published in the international Journal og

Obesity. For those who would challenge suvh discrimination, the study confirmed what

many say has long been abundantly clear; bias against people who are considered fat is

persasive in empleyment, education, public accommodations, and virtually all aspects of

our society. Those who are overweight earn less than non-overweight people in

comparable positions, are less likely to be hired in the first place or considered for a

promotion, and are often viewed as lazy or lacking in self-discipline by employers and

co-workers. Over a 40-years career, a worker who is overweight is likely to earn

$100,000 less than a person who is thinner according to another study, and women are

stigmatized and financially penalized more than men for extra pounds. In the Yale study,

women were twice as likely as men to report that they had been discriminated at the

workplace because of their size.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

Academic achievement is the first aspect which influences bullying at school. Therefore,

bullied children live within fear, self-blame, feel weak and it affects their personality

traits and self-confidence, so this situation makes them unable to study well and they

might hate going to school. Furthermore, they will lose their opportunities to participate
with others or enjoy school activities. Hence, they will gain less academic performance

and low educational attainment. There is a strong relationship between bullying and

school quality such as class size, lack of library, sports facilities. Both bullies and victims

feel more negativen about school, and persistent bullying may lead to stress and

depression. Bullying can lead to anxiety, low-esteem, hopelessness and isolation.

Children miss lessons or are scred to attend school. They lose concentration when they do

attend. Some of the effects last long after the bullying, until they are adults.

Students who are bullied cannot concertrate in schools, so their grades may be a warning

sign that a student is being bullied. A child’s grade may also suffer if he or she misses a

lot of school due to bullying.

According to the Washingto Assessment of Student Learning and the lowa test in the

spring of 2002. Each examination consisted of subtest score for reading, math, and

listening. A composite score qs created for each child, which was usedas a proxy for

academic achievement. School attendance was expressed as a percentage of days attented

of days enrolled during the 2001-2002 school year. This was treated as a continous

variety