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- Feature: Being Me and Fitting In: The Dilemma of Differentness
- The Editor's View: Information Literacy
- Connections: Gifted Readers and Young Adult Literature: A Perfect Match
- Consultant's Corner: Appropriate Content for Gifted Readers
- Parent's Platform: Attaining Grade Advancement
- The Emotional Edge: Taking the Bully by the Horns
- Product Tips: Corner the Market
- Currents: Leaving Out the Gifted
- Currents: Middle School Uncensored
- Currents: Homogeneous versus Heterogeneous
- Currents: The Plague of Bullying
- Currents: Virtual Schools
Currents
The Plague of Bullying
Volume 4 / Issue 3 / Spring 2004
Are students who are bullied at greater risk of developing depression? Researchers from Wichita State University observed 266 elementary school students from the beginning of kindergarten through the end of the first grade. Their findings reveal that, on average, children are physically or verbally harassed by peers every three to six minutes. By the first grade such bullying typically focuses on a small group of “perpetual victims.” Boys who are harassed regularly are more likely to demonstrate both antisocial and depressive behaviors at school and, by doing so, tend to attract still more bullying. Girls who are bullied are more likely to engage in antisocial behavior at home and to act depressed at school.
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