This article provides you with a great reason on why a student who is bullied may have aggression which could lead to school violence. The kids who are bullied are often scared to tell anyone what is going on because of many reasons. That will leave them with no one to help them or give them advice on how to handle their situation. Then, they will go to their own measures on how to solve the problem, which usually doesn’t turn out very well. It will usually result in some kind of school violence because the kid just keeps getting angrier and angrier until they finally explode and go crazy. The child going crazy is what will lead to their aggression and to school violence. According to this scholarly article by James Unnever and Dewey Cornell, a student can be bullied in a few ways. The first way you know a student is being bullied is when other students say mean or hurtful things to the victim or call the victim mean or hurtful names. The second way is when other students ignore the victim purposely or leave them out of things. The next way is when a student or students hit, kick, or shove the victim. The last way is when students spread lies or false rumors about the victim. Most victims often refuse to tell anyone that they are being bullied. Therefore, teachers or any other kind of authority is unable to take the appropriate action and stop the bullying from happening. A victim seeking help is crucial. It reduces the probability of being victimized in the future. The victim refuses to report the bullying for a number of reasons. Sometimes too little attention is given to the victim who is reporting the bullying. It could also cause the victim to experience embarrassment or shame. The victim could be scared that if they tell on their bully that the bully will get in trouble and it will force the bully to retaliate again in some kind of way. Male victims are less likely to report that they are being bullied than a female. Also, students who are older are less likely to report that they are being bullied than younger students. One study showed that seventy-five percent of bully-victims did tell someone they were being bullied, while the other twenty-five percent of students refused to tell anyone. The second study showed similar results with twenty-nine percent of students refusing to tell anyone. This is terrible that nearly one-fourth of students will not tell anyone. The kids who don’t tell anyone are never going to get help and they will never be able to resolve their problem with bullying. Since the students are not getting any kind of help at all they are finding other solutions to their problems. They could show signs of social withdrawal, which can make them crazy. According to the article, research shows that victims will show a range of aggressiveness from somewhat passive aggression to very harmful aggression. Bully-victims tend to show symptoms and behavior such as irritability, restlessness, and anger and that leads to aggressive behavior. Another study was done using the Aggressive Attitudes scale. This scale included: “If a kid threatens you, it is ok to hit them” and, “It feels good when I hit someone.” The responses to these two statements ranged from strongly agree to strongly disagree. They summed and standardized the scores. The standardized coefficient for the Aggressive Attitude scale was 0.79. This article just shows how bully-victims are scared to tell anyone about their problems with bullying, and therefore they use their own methods to solve their problem, which leads to aggression and school violence.
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