Comparison of Group and Individual Differences
Bullying varies across gender and cultural lines. The ways in which boys bully boys, and girls bully girls, can be vastly different. For example WebMd.com says that, “Girls who bully are more likely to do so in emotional ways. Boys who bully often do so in both physical and emotional ways” (Webmd.com, 2012). It is known that boys may bully more in physical ways such as shoving kids into lockers, or knocking their books out of their hands. On the other hand, girls are more likely to exclude girls from social groups, and then proceed to gossip about those girls.
Bullying also differs in schools with higher rates of low-income students, or schools that have a larger majority or minority population. “The proportion of non-White students in a school is also regarded as a risk factor for school violence (G. D. Gottfredson, Gottfredson, Payne, & Gottfredson, 2005), but typical measures of socioeconomic status do not adequately distinguish race from social class (Hosp & Reschly, 2004)” (Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012). This survey shows that it is difficult to say that more or less bullying occurs in schools that have different SES students. The study claims that schools that had a higher population of non-white students have a higher risk for violence, and this could be due to poverty, and other risk factors associated with low SES schools.