Mobbing victims
Theoretically almost everyone can become victim of a mobbing attack. Nevertheless, a certain pattern emerges when one compares mobbing victims. Many are more sensitive and delicate than the people around them.
They react more quickly to offending situations and radiate a certain fear and insecurity, which the classmates or employees often notice quickly. Usually these people also differ visually from other people. Especially people with a disability often have to endure bullying. Problems with bullying also occur more often with members of ethical minorities who speak a different language or whose social status differs from that of others. Unfortunately, the style of clothing, appearance in general and material possessions are also often a reason to be bullied.
What types of bullying are there?
Although there is no difference between bullying of men and women in the frequency of occurrence, there is a difference in the way they harass the victims. Women and girls tend to exclude or ignore the victims. Social isolation therefore plays a major role.
Men or boys, on the other hand, are more likely to become violent and verbally abusive. As already mentioned, bullying does not always have to take place on a violent level. Often it is psychological injuries that are triggered by exclusion, telling untruths, mocking or whispering behind the back of the person concerned.
Often the victims of bullying are also attacked directly with words or they are mocked publicly. Sometimes the victims are simply obviously completely ignored and nobody reacts when they say something. This can also cause severe psychological damage in the long run.
Mobbing can happen in many different ways. The most obvious variant is the physical, thus physical Mobbing, with which the victim is pressed or struck for example. This behavior is most often seen in children and young people at school.
In adults, such behavior no longer leads to the desired effect, namely attention by a certain audience.Much more often, therefore, it comes not to physical but verbal bullying, in which the victim is insulted and has to endure amusements at his expense. These can be, for example, attacks on his appearance, his school or work performance or his social situation. Many people perceive these bullying acts as a joke and underestimate the effects on the victim.
More people therefore usually join the perpetrator than in the case of bullying through physical violence, as the negative effects on the victim are not so easily overlooked in this case. Depending on where a person is bullied, one can also distinguish between school, office and cyber bullying (bullying on the Internet). If the victim is bullied by his or her superior, the term “bossing” is used.