Bullying, consistent with Olweus' (1993) definition and that of other large scale studies (e.g., World Health Organization's international study of bullying; Nansel et al. 2001; Spriggs et al. 2007), is defined in the MORE student battery as occurring "when a person or group of people repeatedly say or do mean or hurtful things to someone on purpose".
An independent report released in early May, one of many commissioned by the BBC in the aftermath of the Savile scandal, painted a picture of an organization with a "visible, frequent and consistent" culture of bullying, anxiety and fear.
This pattern was consistent across all bullying types except cyberbullying.
Overall the associations between individual factors and verbal bullying were consistent with the literature, but cannot be extrapolated to other forms of bullying.
Although in its relative infancy, the emergent research literature describing the outcomes associated with cyber-bullying/cyber-victimisation is largely consistent with the traditional bullying literature illustrating the robust negative relationship between all forms of bullying/victimisation and mental health.
Tell a teacher, trusted adult, or parent if the bullying is consistent.
The Mail is not even consistent in the targets for its bullying: the bully editor's whim is final.
Unfortunately, such legislative activity has not yet translated into consistent and enduring reductions in bullying.
Consistent associations are reported between bullying and other behaviour problems, for example conduct problems (Viding, Simmonds, Petrides, & Frederickson, 2009), and externalising (Andreou, 2001) or arousal seeking behaviour (Woods & White, 2005).
This is consistent with a view that bullies are highly sophisticated social manipulators who are callous and show little empathy.
