JCRT Bullying Survey 2010

Estudo Sobre bullying

Sondaż o brutalnym zachowaniu

Definition of Bullying for Purposes of the Survey
The British Governments definition of bullying is:
“Behaviour by an individual or group, usually repeated over time, that intentionally hurts another individual or group either physically or emotionally”.
The Anti-Bullying Alliance states that bullying generally falls into two categories:
· Emotionally harmful behaviour, such as taunting, spreading hurtful rumours and excluding people from groups;
· Physically harmful behaviour, such as kicking, hitting, pushing, or other forms of physical abuse.
The following three conditions are used to define incidences of harmful interpersonal behaviour as bullying behaviour. Behaviour is bullying behaviour if:
· It is repetitive, wilful or persistent;
· It is intentionally harmful, carried out by an individual or group;
· There is an imbalance of power, leaving the person who is being bullied feeling defenceless.

Background to the Survey

The Trust are extremely pleased that the results of its 2010 Bullying Survey can now be shared with the general public.

As background, the Trust completed some work with CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) regarding bullying in Jersey and it was felt the first step to tackling the issue of bullying ( for people of all ages) was to quantify the level of the problem in the island. Although there is data from education, no data exists regarding other areas of life so on 19th April The Trust launched its Bullying Survey 2010 which ran until the end of August 2010.

The Trust was overwhelmed by the response to the survey and has spent the last few months analysing the data. The Trust was kindly assisted by Dr Bryn Williams who has compiled the following report analysing the results of the survey. The Trust would also like to thank the States statistics department who also helped with the analysis. We do encourage you to read the full report as it is very easy to read and will not take much of your time. To read full report click here 

Highlights of the 2010 Bullying Report

· A surprisingly large percentage (40.4%) stated that they had been bullied within the last twelve months
· Most people (29.2%) experienced bullying 2-5 times in the last year
· The highest proportion of those completing the survey fell into the age group 31-50 and this constituted 40% of the respondents.
· The survey revealed that the two most common places to experience bullying were stated to be the workplace (56%) and at school (28.4%)
· The person most commonly involved in the bullying behaviour was a work colleague (34.9%) followed very closely by a work manager (34.6%)
· It emerged that feeling upset was the most frequent response to the effect of bullying but an increase of stress levels, feeling angry, a feeling of low self esteem and a feeling of humiliation followed this closely.
 

Recommendations of the Report

A full list of the recommendations can be found in the report – for report please click here- but one of the main points that the Trust will be taking forward is to set up a pilot project employing a counsellor on a part time basis to assist individuals who are undergoing bullying. This approach has been most beneficial in local schools but no similar service is offered for the workplace or other locations of bullying. Many individuals did not feel they could talk about their bullying at work for fear of reproach and so an external counsellor would be beneficial.