Guilderland Central School District Bullying prevention at Guilderland

Bullying behavior chart

 

The following chart helps to illustrate some of the various forms of bullying behaviors. Examples are divided into verbal and non-verbal behavior categories, and are arranged according to levels of severity (3 being examples of the most serious bullying behaviors):

 

  Physical
Harm to another's body or property
Emotional
Harm to another's self-esteem
Social
Harm to another's group acceptance
  verbal non-verbal verbal non-verbal verbal non-verbal

1

  • Taunting
  • Expressing physical superiority
  • Making threatening gestures
  • Defacing property
  • Pushing/shoving
  • Taking small items from others
  • Insulting remarks
  • Calling names
  • Teasing about possessions, clothes
  • Giving dirty looks
  • Holding nose or other insulting gestures
  • Saying someone has germs or is unclean
  • Gossiping
  • Starting/spreading rumors
  • Teasing publicly about clothes, looks, etc...
  • Passively not including in a group
  • Playing mean tricks
2
  • Threatening physical harm
  • Blaming victim
  • Damaging property
  • Stealing
  • Initiating fights
  • Scratching
  • Tripping or causing a fall
  • Assaulting
  • Insulting family
  • Harassing with phone calls
  • Insulting intelligence, athletic ability, etc...
  • Defacing school work
  • Falsifying school work
  • Defacing personal property, clothing, etc...
  • Insulting race, gender
  • Increasing gossip/rumors
  • Undermining other relationships
  • Making someone look foolish
  • Excluding from the group
3
  • Making repeated and/or graphic threats
  • Practicing extortion
  • Making threats to secure silence: "If you tell, I will..."
  • Destroying property
  • Setting fires
  • Biting
  • Physical cruelty
  • Making repeated, violent threats
  • Assaulting with a weapon
  • Frightening with phone calls
  • Challenging in public
  • Ostracizing
  • Destroying personal property or clothing
  • Threatening total group exclusion
  • Arranging public humiliation
  • Total group rejection/ostracizing

 

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