Were You Bullied as a Kid?

[Totally Committed]

Poll question: Were You Bullied as a Kid?

I am doing research on the subject of bullying, and would love it if you could help me.


If you answered yes to having been bullied, and feel okay about discussing it, could you answer the following questions?

(1) Where were you bullied? At school, at home (by siblings), in your neighborhood?

(2) What was the suject of the bullying? Popularity? Your looks or body-image? Your intelligence? Your ethnicity? Your class? Your race? Your sex?

(3) What was the effect the bullying had on your life? Did you withdraw? Did you become a bully yourself? Did you fight back? (If so, how?) Did you compensate by trying to his your intelligence, or your spruce up looks, or what? How did you cope?

(4) Were you ever beaten up? Or was your bullying just verbal?

(5) As you got older (in high school), how were you effected? Were you popular with your sex of choice? Did you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? Did you have a group of friends who liked you and welcomed you? Did you join a gang?

(6) What years of school were you bullied? Grade School? Middle School? High School? All?

(7) Did anyone in an authority position in the school system try and help you? Did it help or hurt the situation?

(8) Did you develop risky or self-destructive behaviors as a way to cope? (You don't have to say what they were to answer the question. If you are comfortable with a simple yes or no, those answers will be very helpful.)

(9) Has it effected you as an adult?

(10) Has it effected your World View today? If so, how?


Thanks so much, in advance, for you help in this project.

TC