1 Running Head: CONSEQUENCES OF BULLYING Running Head: CONSEQUENCES OF BULLYING 1 Name What Are the Consequences of Bullying in Young Children? Course Institute Professor What Are the Consequences of Bullying in Young Children? Bullying refers to aggressive and unwanted behavior among young children that shows presence of a perceived or a real power imbalance. Bullying has effects on the bully, the one being bullied, as well as witnesses. There are several negative outcomes of bullying with are both physical and mental. It is important to look at the effects of bullying on young children. The kids who are bullied suffer the worst outcomes both in their lives physically, socially, and mentally. The first effect of the bullying is anxiety and depression. The child will experience feelings of loneliness and sadness. At the same time, the child will have a change in the eating and sleeping patterns (Fullchange & Furlong, 2016). The depression and anxiety also lead to loss of interest in the activities which they previously enjoyed. The issues in younger children will extend to their adulthood. When young children are bullied, they experience a decline in their academic achievement. The child will lose interest in schoolwork and get less marks because they are distracted. The young children also avoid things like school activities such as sports. The children might end up skipping, missing, or dropping out of school altogether (Fullchange & Furlong, 2016). Bullying also ends up affecting the bully in one way or another. The first effect on the bully is that they engage in fights, vandalism, and eventually drop out of the school (Cho & Lee, 2018). The young children who are bullies will get into other activities such as the vandalism if their truant behaviors go uncontrolled. The young children will end up with other criminal convictions as well as traffic citations. The bully when he continues the behavior will end up making an abusive partner and parent when they develop into adults. It is important to control such behaviors as the aggressiveness ends up going into the personal lives. The bully is unable to form normal human relationships based on values such as love and care (Cho & Lee, 2018). Literature Review Bullying in young children is considered a consistent pattern of abuse as well as mistreatment from colleagues, parents or even other unknown people which leads to either emotional or even physical harm. It can entail such techniques like verbal along with non-verbal, humiliation and psychological torture. Bullying during infancy is usually considered to be challenging since it operates within the child’s established laws and regulations. In most cases, bullying in young children is carried out by a ...

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Running Head: CONSEQUENCES OF BULLYING
Running Head: CONSEQUENCES OF BULLYING
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What Are the Consequences of Bullying in Young Children?
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What Are the Consequences of Bullying in Young Children?
Bullying refers to aggressive and unwanted behavior among
young children that shows presence of a perceived or a real
power imbalance. Bullying has effects on the bully, the one
being bullied, as well as witnesses. There are several negative
outcomes of bullying with are both physical and mental. It is
important to look at the effects of bullying on young children.
The kids who are bullied suffer the worst outcomes both in their
lives physically, socially, and mentally. The first effect of the
bullying is anxiety and depression. The child will experience
feelings of loneliness and sadness. At the same time, the child
will have a change in the eating and sleeping patterns
(Fullchange & Furlong, 2016). The depression and anxiety also
lead to loss of interest in the activities which they previously
enjoyed. The issues in younger children will extend to their
adulthood.
When young children are bullied, they experience a decline in
their academic achievement. The child will lose interest in

2. schoolwork and get less marks because they are distracted. The
young children also avoid things like school activities such as
sports. The children might end up skipping, missing, or
dropping out of school altogether (Fullchange & Furlong, 2016).
Bullying also ends up affecting the bully in one way or another.
The first effect on the bully is that they engage in fights,
vandalism, and eventually drop out of the school (Cho & Lee,
2018). The young children who are bullies will get into other
activities such as the vandalism if their truant behaviors go
uncontrolled. The young children will end up with other
criminal convictions as well as traffic citations.
The bully when he continues the behavior will end up making
an abusive partner and parent when they develop into adults. It
is important to control such behaviors as the aggressiveness
ends up going into the personal lives. The bully is unable to
form normal human relationships based on values such as love
and care (Cho & Lee, 2018).
Literature Review
Bullying in young children is considered a consistent pattern of
abuse as well as mistreatment from colleagues, parents or even
other unknown people which leads to either emotional or even
physical harm. It can entail such techniques like verbal along
with non-verbal, humiliation and psychological torture.
Bullying during infancy is usually considered to be challenging
since it operates within the child’s established laws and
regulations. In most cases, bullying in young children is carried
out by an individual who possesses power over the victim
(Rivara & National Academies of Sciences 2016). Bullies in
young children can also be peers and family. Bullying in young
children can either be covert or overt.
There are a variety of negative implications that are associated
with bullying in young children. Negative implications of the
bullying in young children are not only felt by the targeted
individual but by those surrounding the young child (DeLara et
al., 2016). Bullying in young children leads to decrement in
child’s morale as well as an alteration in how well they get

3. motivated. Bullying can also be in the form of an overbearing
type of parent supervision as well as frequent criticism from
friends, family and other parties (Maiuro et al., 2015). This
causes the child to withdraw from the family or friends and
always keep to themselves. They lack the desire to interact with
those close to them due to fear of being criticized or facing
harshness. This is because they lose self-esteem in themselves
as they are frequently put down.
Moreover, bullying in young children leads to anxiety in them.
They become anxious about everything due to the fear that has
been instilled in them over time from the bullying. They become
anxious about going to places as they feel inadequate and do not
want to associate themselves with other people and would rather
lock themselves up. Nonetheless, they become stressed and this
can be perceived through physical symptoms of stress in
children such as frequent headaches and stomach pains (Olweus
et al., 2018). Nonetheless, their performance in school drops as
their concentration level goes down due to their diminished
confidence and self-esteem. Furthermore, bullying in young
children is associated with dire consequences that develop in
the long term or in the continued bullying of the child. These
impacts are chronic fatigue where the child will always
complain of being tired. There is also insomnia where it
becomes hard for the child to fall asleep. They may even end up
having an overall feeling of hopelessness as well as
worthlessness which has a huge implication on their future in
terms of career and growth (Hinitz et al., 2018).
References
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Cho, S., & Lee, J. M. (2018). Explaining physical, verbal, and
social bullying among bullies, victims of bullying, and bully-

4. victims: Assessing the integrated approach between social
control and lifestyles-routine activities theories. Children and
Youth Services Review, 91, 372-382.
DeLara, E. (2016). Bullying scars: The impact on adult life and
relationships.
Fullchange, A., & Furlong, M. J. (2016). An exploration of
effects of bullying victimization from a complete mental health
perspective. Sage Open, 6(1), 2158244015623593.
Hinitz, B. S. F. (2018). Impeding bullying among young
children in international group contexts.
Maiuro, R. D. (2015). Perspectives on bullying: Research on
childhood, workplace, and cyberbullying.
Rivara, F. P., In Le, M. S., National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)., & National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). (2016). Preventing
bullying through science, policy, and practice.
Olweus, D. (2018). Bullying at school: What we know and what
we can do. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
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