Bullying victims can be those targeted by bullies or those who are both victims and bullies. Bullying involves repeated abuse directed at a perceived vulnerable individual. Victims may feel helpless and lack social skills, while bullies may also lack social skills and continue negative behavior without repercussions. Those who are both victims and bullies may struggle to receive help from authority figures. It is important to consider a bully’s position in the social hierarchy when addressing the issue.
The term victim of bullying can be used in two different ways when discussing the social phenomenon of bullying. One definition uses the term to describe someone who is the target of bullying behavior, while a second definition uses it to describe someone who is both a victim and a bully. First, the victim experiences a pattern of intimidating, threatening, and demeaning behavior from a bully or group of bullies. In the second case, he may also turn around and bully others he perceives as vulnerable and of a lower status in the social hierarchy where victim and bully interact. The fact that some legitimate victims of bullying continue to bully others contributes significantly to the difficulty of addressing and resolving the bullying problem.
In the earliest use of the word, a bullied is someone who is repeatedly subjected to abuse or exploitation by an individual or individuals. While conflict is inevitable in most social situations, bullying involves a pattern of behavior directed against someone who is perceived by the perpetrator as vulnerable. Bullies often continue their negative behavior because they don’t believe they will suffer negative repercussions. Similarly, the victim may often feel helpless and believe that taking action to stop the torment, including informing authority figures, will do no good. In many cases, a victim may have very poor social skills and cannot develop a strategy for dealing with a bully or reducing the behavior.
When the term bullied is used to describe someone who is both a bully and a victim of a bullying, it typically describes a child or adult who is bullied and, out of stress or frustration, engages in similar behaviors towards others. others. Some experts believe that both bullies and bullies themselves often have poor social skills and have difficulty negotiating social relationships in a healthy way. Both bullying and victimization can therefore be symptoms of the same lack of social skills and understanding of appropriate social relationships on the part of the victim. This type of bullied victim may find it difficult to receive assistance if authority figures, such as teachers, focus primarily on their own acts of aggression rather than their experience of being bullied by others. As such, it is important for those responsible for bullying prevention to take into consideration a bully’s position in the social hierarchy and whether he or she has himself been a target of negative behaviour.
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