Bullying Leads to Suicide | Staho.com

Bullying Leads to Suicide | Staho.com
Students explain bullying through the bully’s feelings of insecurity and low self-esteem. They say that bullies torment people in an attempt to boost their popularity, status and power. 42 percent of students blamed the victim for bullying, saying they are too “different” or “odd”, from the vast majority of kids. 21 percent blamed bullying on the school environment, on human nature and society in general. Another study led by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, surveying more than 40,000 high-school students, reveals at least half of them had at one point bullied someone, while half of them had, at one point, been bullied themselves.

These findings prove to be very important in trying to better assess such behavior, and prevent it from occurring in any educational institutions, for starters.