Bullying and defensive psychological attitudes in the first cycle of Primary Education

Abstract

This brief and initial study tries to introduces readers to the multiple aggressions and/or bullying that many students suffer daily in the first cycle of primary education, at six or seven years old. These are often not repaired since most of the times neither parents nor teachers notice. For children it constitutes a source of worry, because they are singled out, stigmatized and abused, at a very young age, by mates from their own class and school. The different types of aggressions that take place in the first years of Primary Education are also dealt with. Among the most remarkable and frequent we will mention the following: “upsetting”, “insulting”, “teasing”, “distracting other students so the teacher will punish them”, “threats”, “pushing”, “stealing the lunch”, “slapping”, “pushing from the swings”, and “trying to choke others”.
This initial investigation includes a new aspect that has not been studied yet, regarding the psychological defense that some of the victims resort to in order to survive to this turmoil created and fuelled by the bully, and that the victim cannot control.