Bullying: My Own Research

Bullying: My Own Research Hello, it's me Christopher Jacobs again and today I, after some of my own original research. My last post was all about the research and some personal experience in a major problem all around the world. BULLYING. Now this is a big problem that I have already talked about but I have some of my own data from my fellow SLA students. For those of you who haven't seen my first post where I researched about bullying. It was basically me giving statistics about bullying. As well as me giving my own personal experiences on bullying and how it affects me. Now for me I had 3 options for this post and those were a field observation, survey and interview. I could have easily done any other but decided that a survey would be the most effective thing to do. What I made is a survey to collect data on personal experiences of people and bullying in their lives. What I found was very interesting to be honest. I found that out of the 29 responses I got 13 were of people who told me they were not bullied. While the rest said that they were bullied before. Here's a graph that I have of this info from different responses. After looking through this I found some interesting responses such as what I mentioned before. So then for my next question I asked them about the current state of this and if they were still being bullied and overall a lot of people said no. When I saw this I was honestly really happy as it shown me that out of this survey the students that answered (which a lot were from my grade were not ever subject to bullying.). But from what I read from their responses a lot of them were victims of bullying during younger grades for their looks usually. I also asked a question that I felt was just as, if not bigger than your standard bullying. Cyberbullying, now if you don’t know what cyberbullying is bullying but digitally such as messages, and social media. So I was curious and decided to ask about it and see if people were cyberbullied. Again I got a positive graph. So now 21 people said they weren’t ever cyberbullied while 8 people said they were. Graph is here below. For my final question I decided to ask any long effects from bullying. I got what I mostly researched such as anxiety. Plus some other things like people not making friends as easy as they used to. Overall this survey really opened up my eyes and some more and better insight from current students as well. This really to me gave me a different look as my fellow classmates that are currently students showed to not be bullied as much but were before. So I did some more research for this and found 20% of high school US students report being bullied. This after I compared it I found to be not that close to my own percentage of kids bullied being a bit higher. Overall I really enjoyed this survey as I got to learn just a bit more about my fellow students at SLA in a whole. This survey to me really made me happy as a majority of my classmates never had to go through the pain and suffering of bullying. I truly believe that even if not many people took this this really helped me as well to see how true the statistical “facts” about bullying are.