When Kids Hurt Other Kids: Bullying in Philippine Schools

Abstract

This research looked into prevalence rate of bullying victimization and perpetration as well as teachers' response to bullying incidence in the Philippines. A total of 340 sixth graders from five different schools in Western Visayas participated in the study. Slightly more than half (54.1%) of the sample were boys and 45.9% were girls. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze data gathered from the survey. Children's self-reports revealed that prevalence rate for victimization was 40.6% and that for perpetration was 23.8%. Similar to previous literature, results also showed that there were significantly more boys than girls who reported to be victims (χ verbal reprimands, temporary removal from class, withdrawal of privileges, and suspension, which were imposed on individuals involved in bullying as bullies. Although all teachers and school personnel were required to report bullying cases they had knowledge of to the child protection committee in their institution, very few did so. These findings suggest the need for a more effective bullying prevention program and a careful examination of the implementing rules and guidelines of RA 10627, otherwise known as the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013.

Bullying Victimization Among Junior High School Students in Aceh, Indonesia: Prevalence and its Differences in Gender, Grade, and Friendship Quality

“…The cases of victimization were also documented in African countries (Kubwalo, Muula, Siziya, Paupulati, & Rudatsikira, 2013;Owusu, Hart, Oliver, & Kang, 2011) with the prevalence rate of more than 40%. In Pakistan, the rate was lower (17.9%) compared to the study conducted by Sanapo (2017) in Philippine where the frequency of victimization reached 40.6%. The data was uniquely different in Hongkong, Taiwan, Macao (Mok, Wang, jutenfren, Leung, & Chen, 2014) and Thailand (Sittichai & Smith, 2015), in which less than 10% of the students reported having experienced bullying.…”

“…A study by Bond, Wolfe, Tollit, Butler, and Patton (2007) revealed that students in Australia had more experiences of being hurt and threatened physically, teased, called names, and spread rumors. In Asia-Pacific and South America countries, more students had been called by unpleasant nicknames, being laughed and cursed (Jolliffe & Farrington 2011;Lai, Ye, & Chang, 2008;Sanapo 2017;Silva, Pereira, Mendonca, Nunes, & de Oliveira, 2013;). Results from the studies indicated that verbal bullying was found to be the most common category reported by students (Jolliffe & Farrington 2011;Marsh et al, 2010).…”

Bullying, Interests and Skills of Senior High School Students

“…This can also be inferred that students did not refer verbal bullying and interests and skills due to the movies they've watched and the environment they belong. According to Sanapo (2017), the study also revealed that verbal bullying and victimization was the common from experienced by the children. The table above shows that the computed value of cyber bullying vs.…”

“…According to Gini, Pozzoli, Borgi and Franzoni (2008), bullying is a negative behavior and becomes a public health concern that receives attention from the media and policymakers (Waasdrop, Pas, Zablotsky and Bradshaw, 2017) which requires deeper reflection on the cultured diversity (Koifman and Botelho da Costa, 2016). bullying is also a problem in the peer relations by the imbalance power between the parties (De Oliveira, Silva, Braga, Romualdo, Caravita and Silva, 2016) which is associated with physical, mental, and social detriments (Dake, Price, and Telljohan, 2003) and is usually form of derogatory remarks or insults hurled at the target (Sanapo, 2017).…”

“…Bullying is a serious and visible problem in many schools and also specific types of aggression of behavior is intended to harm that occurs repeatedly over time (Seixas, Coelho & Fischer, 2013). Bullying is prevalent among children in selected schools in the Philippines in which more boys that girls experience bullying both as a perpetrator and victim particularly verbal bullying (Sanapo, 2017). Bullying tend to create depression to the victims which may lead to suicidal cases.…”