PERILAKU BULLYING PADA ANAK DAN REMAJA
Abstrak: Bullying is a common
issue in elementary and secondary schools, but it presents a serious threat to
a healthy development during the school career. Bullying in school is a
pervasive social problem in which children exploit power imbalances in order to
dominate and harm others physically, socially, or emotionally. Individual
characteristics in a certain developmental stage affect their behavior, so the
goal of this study is trying to describe bullying among children in elementary
school and adolescents in school contexts Our objectives were to compare
bullying among children in elementary schools and adolescents in high schools
for the following: frequency and type of bullying; the location where the
bullying occurs; percent- ages of children and adolescents who identified as
bullies, victims, and bystanders in bullying events; children and adolescents
knowledge at bullying. The sample of this study were children in elementary
school Grade VI and adolescents in high school Grade III by cluster random sampling
technique. The instruments were two types of questionnaires; the one with
pictures was for children and the one without pictures was for adolescents
samples. The results of this study described children and adolescents bullying
in schools for the following: 1) Physically bullying was the most type of
bullying that occurred in children. Verbal bullying was the most type of
bullying that occurred in adolescents. 2) The location where the bullying
occurred the most was the classroom either in children or adolescents. 3)
Students who identified as bullies were 8% of the children samples and 5% if
the adolescents samples. There was no difference percentage of students who
identified as victims, it was 3% of the children samples and also 3% of the the
adolescents samples. Students who identified as bystanders were 24% of the children
and 22% of the adolescents samples. 4) The category of knowledge level at
bullying in children samples were 70% at average, 25% at low and 5% at high.
The category of knowledge level at bullying in adolescents samples were 90% at
average, 5% at low and 5% at high.
Penulis: Sugiariyanti
Kode Jurnal: jppsikologikepribadiandd090063
