Re:What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage ...
by threatofrain on Thursday July 17, 2014 @03:21PM
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From what I've gathered before from some reading on adolescent bullying:
Bullies (not bully-victims):
* A transient, difficult-to-predict population, and perhaps more elegantly thought of as a social position than an individual propensity.
* Bullies generally don't stay bullies, and it's difficult to know who will become a bully.
* Bullying is also an audience-related activity, and is often performed in front of others -- the "bystander" population is in on it, and may provide substantial social rewards to bullies. Even victims may admire bullies.
* Bullies experience improvement in social popularity.
* Bullying events tend to involve a group of bullies against singular or fewer victims.
* The stereotypes that bullies are sociopaths / psychopaths, come from abusive home situations, are anxious or insecure, do not persuasively conform to observations.
* Bullies experience protective effects against loneliness, social anxiety, stress, and some other things. They do better than the normal population on these aspects.
Victims:
* Are a stable population, and may perhaps be more elegantly thought of as an individual propensity, rather than a social position where people move in and out of.
* One study estimates that the victim population constitutes about 10% of the school population.
* A small handful of studies with admitted methodological difficulties finds that those who are bullied at school are also significantly more likely to be bullied on online social networks.
Bullies (not bully-victims):
* A transient, difficult-to-predict population, and perhaps more elegantly thought of as a social position than an individual propensity.
* Bullies generally don't stay bullies, and it's difficult to know who will become a bully.
* Bullying is also an audience-related activity, and is often performed in front of others -- the "bystander" population is in on it, and may provide substantial social rewards to bullies. Even victims may admire bullies.
* Bullies experience improvement in social popularity.
* Bullying events tend to involve a group of bullies against singular or fewer victims.
* The stereotypes that bullies are sociopaths / psychopaths, come from abusive home situations, are anxious or insecure, do not persuasively conform to observations.
* Bullies experience protective effects against loneliness, social anxiety, stress, and some other things. They do better than the normal population on these aspects.
Victims:
* Are a stable population, and may perhaps be more elegantly thought of as an individual propensity, rather than a social position where people move in and out of.
* One study estimates that the victim population constitutes about 10% of the school population.
* A small handful of studies with admitted methodological difficulties finds that those who are bullied at school are also significantly more likely to be bullied on online social networks.