WHY ME?
A demographic profile on youths who experienced bullying in schools based on a study conducted on 513 students by Koh and Tan from the Singapore Children's society (2008).
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drawing of a youth who experienced bullying. By Keicia.
WE ARE THE TARGET
* Based on Koh and Tan (2008), these are the general profile of youths (pp. 6-21).
*Supported by Sin (2017) from The Straits Times on types of bullying as well as Gordon (2019) on friends of these youths.
AGE: 13 to 20 years old
EDUCATION: Secondary school (Secondary 1 to 4)
RACE: Malay (29% of youths who where bullied, highest rate considering the ratio of study), Chinese (59% of youths) and Indian (7% of youths)
TARGETED AT: Mostly in school, online (less than 10% of the youths experienced that)
TYPES OF BULLYING EXPERIENCED : physical, verbal (most prevalent) , relational & cyber bullying (Sin, 2017).
GENDER: In secondary school the gender being bullied is almost equal (50%)
PAST EXPERIENCES: 14% were bullies before getting bullied
FRIENDS: very little to none. Those who are always alone in school are more likely to be bullied (Gordon, 2019).
WHAT WE WENT THROUGH
* Based on Sin from The Straits Times (2017) , these are the 6 categories of bullying experienced in schools
* Supported by data of frequency of experience from Koh and Tan 's study (2008 , p. 21).
1. BEING LEFT OUT
( 20% of youths experienced this)
2. BEING MADE FUN OF
3. THREATENED BY PEERS
(11% of youths experienced this)
4. HAVE PROPERTY TAKEN AWAY
(35% of youths experienced this)
5. WAS PUSHED OR HIT
(30% of youths experienced this)
6. SPREADING OF NASTY RUMORS
( 38% of youths experienced this)
ONLINE BULLYING (least experienced)
- 5% of youths experienced having negative comments about them posted on internet
- 4% youths in secondary school were sent abusive text messages
THE MORE FREQUENT ENCOUNTERS
*Based on the study from Koh and Tan (2008, p.21), these are the encounters with the highest percentage.
IN SECONDARY SCHOOL:
- calling of hurtful names( 69% of the youths)
- spreading of rumors (38% of the youths)
* Verbal bullying of Indian youths iare more common ( 40% of the Indian youths compared to 6% of Chinese and 14% Muslims)
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WE WANT TO AVOID THEM
*Based on the study from Koh and Tan (2008, pp. 2-3), these are the description of bullies by the youths they interviewed.
BULLIED BY:
- 69% in secondary school were bullied by other youths of the same class
- Youths are also bullied by peers of the same race, gender and education level
FREQUENCY:
About 1 in 4 secondary school students surveyed were bullied by their peers repeated at least two times in a single month.
“I''ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.”
–maya angelou (angelou, 2014)