Girls Bully Too

Most studies about bullying focus on boys as aggressors, but GIRLS can be bullies too! And when girls bully, it can be an entirely different beast!

The tactics used by girls who bully are distorted versions of some normal mechanisms of social development.

Middle school girls are more likely to verbally harass.

According to research done by Lagerspetz, Bjorqvist and Peltonen at the University of Miami, when girls bully they make other feel alienated and alone.

Girls Entice other children to act out aggressively and sit back to watch the show.

- Form groups that pick and choose members at random
- Exclude others without real reason
- Form alliances with other social groups in an effort to jockey for popularity and positions of power among peers

Girls get other kids to gang up on one or more peers as a way of exerting control

Girls Bullying Looks Like

Anonymous prank phone calls
Harassing emails from dummy accounts
Harassing posts from dummy accounts
Playing jokes or tricks designed to embarrass and humiliate
Deliberate exclusion of other kids for no real reason
Whispering in front of other kids with the intent to make them feel left out
Name calling, rumor spreading and other malicious verbal interactions
Being friends one week and then turning against a peer the next week with no incident or reason for the alienation
Encouraging other kids to ignore or pick on a specific child
Inciting others to act out violently, aggressively or deliberately exclude someone

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