Dr. Ali Cipra discusses the effects of bullying. Explore the lasting consequences of bullying on children and effective coping mechanisms.

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bullying, externalizing, personality, extraversion, internalizing, resilience, clipped, bullied, behaviors, adults, strong personalities, resilient, skills, problem solving skills, content, long term effects, neuroticism, honestly, obstacles

SPEAKERS

Amy Vujaklija, Joi Patterson, Alli Cipra

Our job as adults and as researchers and educators is to try to identify it try to provide children with the coping mechanisms and problem solving skills to get through these obstacles.

Welcome to clipped content from Governor State University's teaching and leading with Dr. Amy and Dr. Joi. In this pocket size PD. Dr. Alli Cipra discusses the effects of bullying. So let's get into it.

You know, I want to talk about the long term effects of being bullied or being a bully or someone who's been fully but what I think about my son and we laugh about this all the time, because I told you there were two major times where he was actually assaulted by this also happened at church where he was jumped by some kids. So as a result, he is an Iron Man, he has a body of steel, and his profession, we can take anybody on now. So he chose a profession, where he's a protector. And I think that his experience, which was really impactful has really shaped his adult life, and how he carries himself. He's a type personality, how he cares for his body and the career that he chose. So what is the long term effects of being bullied, whether you're the bully or someone that's being bullied?

The long term effects are contingent on a few key factors, one being personality, personality of the victim, and another being resilience. So it sounds like your son has a strong personality, and he's very resilient. So he took all of these bad things that were happening and use them as motivation, right? That works really well for people who are like him. For people who don't have coping mechanisms or good problem solving skills or who don't have as strong personalities and artists resilient, that's not going to work, they're not going to use it as motivation, it's just going to be another thing that proves to them that they're not the person they want to be, and they're going to fall deeper down. When we have youth who have underdeveloped resilience skills, or who have certain personality characteristics a little higher on neuroticism, and honestly a little lower on extraversion. I'm not trying to say that being extroverted is good, and being introverted is bad. Just that when it comes to things like bullying and making life changes, extraversion tends to be a boom. So when we have these individuals, they generally also have poor coping skills, and they end up with much higher rates of internalizing and externalizing difficulties as well as other school related problems. And we see this throughout childhood and adolescence even into adulthood. Sometimes, if the behavior the bullying behavior or the victimization continues, we continue to see higher rates of internalizing and externalizing behaviors, so internalizing behaviors being kind of mood issues, mood regulation, type things and anxiety or depression and externalizing being further aggression. So bullying has a big impact and it can have a long run, the impacts can be long lasting. Our job as adults and as researchers and educators is to try to identify it try to provide children with the coping mechanisms and problem solving skills to get through these obstacles because bullying is a terrible thing. We don't want anyone to experience it, but we know they will. Most kids will at some point. And even honestly to provide these skill sets to the would be bullies because if we can help them think about their lives and situations and their social interactions in a different way, they'll behave differently. This was clipped

content featuring Dr. Alli Cipra from our podcast teaching and leading with Dr. Amy and Dr. Joi. Find the full length interview at www.govst.edu/teachingandleading podcast. Stay tuned for more pocket sized peds from Dr. Amy and Dr. Joi