CHARACTERISTICS OF TEENAGE BULLYING AND ITS DEFINITION

Abstract

Current article is dedicated to definition of bullying in Russian, taking into account characteristics such as repetition, harm, intent and power imbalance between bully and victim. Implicitly, power imbalance also includes lack of control over the situation for victim. These characteristics can be traced in all types of bullying. There are three possible bases for classification of bullying: characteristics of subject such as age, gender, nationality etc. (teenage bullying, bullying against women), process environment (home bullying, school bullying, cyberbullying), and type of abusive behavior (physical, verbal and social bullying).

Keywords

• bullying
• school aggression
• definition