Bullying and Its Different Forms

Bullying can be defined as "unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time" - stopbullying.gov.

The Different Forms

 * Verbal Bullying
 * Physical Bullying
 * Social Bullying
 * Cyberbullying

The Breakdown

 * Verbal: teasing, name calling, making offensive remarks, making inappropriate sexual comments, taunting someone, threatening to cause harm, and joking about a person's religion, gender, socioeconomic status, or their appearance.


 * Intimidation is a mixture of Verbal and Physical: threatening someone else to the point where you make someone else do what you want. Usually, it is a physical threat made verbally that a bully uses to frighten their victim.
 * Physical: hitting, kicking, punching, pinching, spitting, tripping, pushing, stealing or breaking someone else's belongings, and making mean or rude hand gestures.
 * Social: excluding others on purpose, telling others not to be friends with someone, and embarrassing someone in public.
 * Indirect Bullying is also a form of Social: spreading stories or rumors about someone, and telling others something that was told to you in private.
 * Cyberbullying: sending hurtful or inappropriate messages, pictures, or other information using electronic media.

Sources:

http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/00117/typesbullying.html

http://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/definition/#types