Bullying and offensive behaviour

In a (2014/15) survey of Glasgow secondary school pupils 16% reported they had been bullied at school and 8% reported they were bullied online within the last year. These figures suggest that online bullying is not as prevalent as face-to-face bullying yet there is evidence to suggest that both are part of the same problem. It is evidenced that young people use both online and face-to-face communication to bully others, therefore each form of bullying cannot be addressed in isolation. 

The survey revealed that more girls (25%) than boys (17%) reported having been bullied in the last year.

Pupils reporting having been bullied in the last year 

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More boys (20%) than girls (12%) reported that they had bullied or frightened someone else.

Pupils reporting having bullied or frightened someone else in the last year

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Those who had been bullied in the last year were asked how they had been bullied. The most common types of bullying were name calling (in 79% of cases of being bullied in person and 71% of cases of being bullied online) and hurtful comment (in 65% of cases of being bullied online and 61% of being bullied in person). Of those who had been bullied in person, one in four (26%) had been physically hurt. One in four (26%) incidents of online bullying involved pictures of the victim.

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Source: Glasgow City Schools Health and Wellbeing Survey 2014-2015. Full details of the survey and complete reports can be found here.