bullying in schools
Hypotheses
- The incidence of bullying in schools will lead to poor performance in academics.
- Bullying in schools contributes to mental illness to affected students.
- The action of bullying can have long-lasting effects on bullies that can have led them to abuse drugs.
Operational definition
According to Smith (2018), bullying is an aggressive character or behavior whereby there is someone who is being hurt or feeling discomfort due to the harassment caused by bullies’ while poor performance is the act of student getting deficient grades, which are nor encouraging.
Bullying is aggressive behavior whereby there is an imbalance of strength or power. At the same time, mental illness is a health condition that involves changes in behavior or emotions mostly associated with distress (Pilgrim, 2019).
Bullying is peer harassment that involves intimidation to someone as a way of victimizing the involved person. At the same time, drug abuse is the use of a particular substance to create pleasurable effects on the brain (Segal, (2019).
References
Pilgrim, D. (2019). Critical concepts in mental health. SAGE Publications Limited.
Segal, B. (2019). Drug-taking behavior among school-aged youth: The Alaska experience and comparisons with lower-48 states. Routledge.
Smith, P. K. (2018). The psychology of school bullying. Routledge.