Consequently kids who are being gossiped about are negatively impacted. For instance, gossip and rumors can destroy a person's self-confidence and affect their self-esteem. It also can lead to depression, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, anxiety, and a host of other issues. Gossip and rumors can alienate friends, ruin reputations, and Bullyingis considered to be a significant public health problem with both short- and long-term physical and social-emotional consequences for youth. A large body of research indicates that youth who have been bullied are at increased risk of subsequent mental, emotional, health, and behavioral problems, especially internalizing problems, such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and EFFECTSOF BULLYING ON STUDENTS' ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE 2 achievement. Internalizing factors like depression symptoms and anxiety have a negative repercussion on a student's performance (Tremblay et al., 2012). Bullying and peer victimization always have either a direct or indirect impact on the Physicalbullies tend to be bigger, stronger, and more aggressive than their peers. Examples of physical bullying include kicking, hitting, punching, slapping, shoving, and other physical attacks. Unlike other forms of bullying, physical bullying is the easiest to identify. As a result, it is most likely what people think of when they think of Bullyingcan target a person's race, weight, or gender, amongst many other things. It can be verbal or physical and include spreading rumours, intimidation, threatening behaviour, and much more. The effects of bullying in childhood are well documented. Bullying can cause depression, anxiety, a loss of appetite, withdrawal from pleasurable Socialbullying - encouraging the exclusion of certain students, embarrassing or humiliating a child, spreading rumours or lying, mimicking, pulling pranks to cause humiliation and damaging social reputation. This form of bullying is harder to detect (National Centre Against Bullying). The long-term effect of bullying for the bully. tocurb cyber bullying, many students would be affected emotionally. Furthermore, the majority of the respondents 255(70.8%) held the view that cyber bullying had an adverse effect on the victims' academic performance. Data collected from the parents 55 (22%) indicated that their children are worried without apparent reasons. pmY3D0.

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