Differences in bullying behavior between junior males and female practitioners of Competitive Sports

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Faculty of Physical Education, Helwan University

2 faculty of physical Education, Helwan University

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A bullying behavior is a repetitive aggression either verbally, psychologically, or physically by an individual or a group against others, the bully’s behavior is a voluntary activity means hurting others or causing fear or horror through threatening. The bullying behavior appears in any of the following behaviors: continual pushing, hitting, threatening, destroying property or fiercely taking it, calling others in offensive nicknames, or mocking and expelling the victim without any justification from the activity, or spreading malicious rumors about him.
The research aims to realize responses of junior males and females to axes of sport bullying scale and the nature of this phenomenon concerning types of bullying behaviors most commonly used by males and females, the researcher therefor used the descriptive method as she applied the bullying behavior scale to male and female players in individual and group sports activities in Cairo and Alexandria governorates whose number is 290, their ages vary from 12 – 15 years old. Most important results show that there are statistically significant differences in favor of males in the verbal bullying axe, while there are not statistical significant differences between the two groups in other scale axes and its total score. The researcher recommended the necessity of delivering awareness lectures for athletes about reasons of bullying and avoidance & prevention methods to eliminate the spread of bullying behavior occurrence.

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