RESULTS case studies of bullying among school children in the West published in foreign journals revealed that student bullying in adulthood is likely to become criminals.
While the students to be victims of bullying tend to kill themselves because of the pressure.
Dean of the Faculty of Cognitive Science, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Professor Datin Dr. Noran Fauziah Jacob said, reading a journal featuring the story of a 13-year-old student committed suicide in Japan because of the pressure he faced as a result Pemerasan blackmailed by a group of senior students are asked to submit money of RM38, 000 to them.
He stressed that much money was stolen from his parents and eventually committed suicide because of frustration with what has happened.
That poor students had left a note for her parents to explain why he killed himself.
"In Malaysia, 13-year-old students are students first and this may be an indication that the victims were students of lower secondary students of form one, two and three.
"The bullying of students is made up of upper secondary students of Form Four, five and six," he said.
Elaborating, Noran, who had conducted research on bullying among students in secondary schools in Kedah and Perlis in 2002, said bullying consists of two categories: physical bullying and psychological bullying.
He said the bullying involves physical at-hit or psychological bullying while maneuvering over the mock-mock example, if the student's name or the name of the student's father is quite unusual so it would be mockery of senior students who bully.
"My study also found that students who are not attractive or looks dark skin often becomes a victim," he said.
The study, involving 2.600 respondents from lower and upper secondary schools in Kedah and Perlis.
He said, although psychological bullying less media attention, it is actually serious in school.
"I am now making a study of bullying involving pupils in Perak.
"Initial findings indicate psychological bullying occurs most in the National Type Chinese Primary School (SRJKC) while physical bullying more prevalent in the Tamil National Type Primary School (SRJKT)," he said.
Preliminary studies to date involving 700 students at nine schools in Perak.
The findings also showed that physical bullying and the psychology of bullying in the lower primary school.
Since the research is still at an early stage so he decided that bullying in primary school is quite low because of the Islamic Education subject taught to students in national schools which comprise the majority Malay-Muslim students.
"I hope to achieve the target respondents were more than 2,000 students when the review is over soon," he said.
New study is expected to be completed in April 2004.
About the academic performance of students who bully, Noran explained, the results show that bullying has nothing to do with academic achievement.
He said there are students who excel in academics become bullies in school.
"Just look at the boarding school that their results are very good but a bully," he said.
So what causes students to become bullies?
Answering that question, Noran said peers had the strongest influence to change the behavior of students.
Obviously, if the observed incidence of bullying usually involves a group of students and their age is age.
"Peer pressure will encourage students to be influenced by the behavior of their friends who like to bully," he said.
Another factor is that students who reported larger-sized and sturdy like the bullying student body size is smaller for the shows 'power' and physical strength.
In addition, he said, the findings also show that students are bullies because he did not feel safe if you do not do something to protect themselves from unwanted items.
"They often feel suspicious and insecure in school and to overcome those feelings, they begin to bully junior students.
"The success of bullying junior students will show their strength, power, and not easily bullied," he said.
Other factors that were derived from the study is the attitude of teachers who like to praise some clever students in the classroom can lead to dissatisfaction of other students are less intelligent.
According to him, usually students who are often praised by teachers will be targeted.
"I advise teachers to be praised all the students according to their abilities in the classroom.
"This is because if only one or two students only commendable, it can cause jealousy and resentment of other students," he said.
Commenting on what can be done by the school to deal with cases of bullying, Noran said elements of the disadvantages of bullying can be incorporated into the curriculum.
He said, it can be inserted in any of the existing subjects and the duty of all teachers to discuss issues to students.
He said that in Norway, there are anti-bullying policies are included in school curricula.
Through this policy, he said, the students involved will be subjected to bullying by the fault.
In addition, Noran said parents' involvement in addressing the problem of bullying in schools has become important.
Obviously, parents should discuss with their child's teacher if possible change of attitude, be quiet or lack of appetite for food.
"Parents need to become good observers as not all students who are victims want to report it to the school.
"They fear the threat of bullying students who once chose to bury a sense," he said.
He hopes the study results can be used by all parties to reduce or overcome the problem of bullying among students.
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