Bullying and Its Influence Over a Personality

Abstract

Background:During the first four years of the life, a child perceives 25% of the information he will perceive within the whole life. That is what forms a child's behaviour and worldview. If a child grows up and sees only the scandals between his parents, the scratched walls, and the violence, if a child has got through humiliation by his classmates there is a high probability that he will strive to suppress the weaker children in order to compensate for his own lack of confidence and fear. That is why nowadays everything is being done to prevent bullying at schools worldwide and in Ukraine in particular. The name "bullying" derives from the English word "bully", which means a hooligan, a troublemaker, a person who uses his power and authority to scare or harm other people. The word "bullying" means the aggressive behaviour of one person in relation to another in order to cause him mental or physical damage, to humiliate him in such way for asserting the authority over him. The purpose of the article is to determine the features peculiar to bullying, which influences over a teenager, and its consequences affecting an adult personality in future.