ABSTRACT
Bullying has become one of the hot topics in education. Public interest in bullying was stimulated by the school shootings of the 1990s. Bullying prevention is rapidly becoming part of the standard school health curriculum, alongside programs to prevent drug use, cigarette smoking, and teen pregnancy. The difficulty of distinguishing bullying from less serious forms of peer conflict, or even playful teasing and horseplay, cannot be overemphasized. The standard way to measure how much bullying occurs at school is to administer an anonymous survey to students and ask them if they have been bullied. The most widely used bullying survey was developed by Dan Olweus, a Norwegian psychologist who conducted seminal work on bullying in his country. The article, Journal of the American Medical Association presents the total figures for bullying, and does not present how much bullying students reported occurring at school.
