Impact Of Bullying On Psychosocial Maladjustment And Self-Esteem Among Adolescents And Young Adullts

Abstract

Objective: To find out Impact of Bullying on Psychosocial Maladjustment and Self Esteem between Young Adults and Adolescents. Methodology: This cross sectional-purposive sampling based study was conducted upon Teenagers and Young Adults. A sample of 300 people were taken from different colleges, universities of Haripur, out of which 150 were males a combined 75 young adults and adolescents and 150 were females 75 teenager and 75 Youngster. The tools in the research were (IBS). Instruments are used in study is Bulling Scale of Illinois, Scale of Perceived Stress, Self-Esteem Scale by Rosenberg. SPSS used for analysis were Descriptive analysis, Pearson Correlation, ANOVA, t- test and Regression.

Results: The results indicated that bullying, psychosocial maladjustment and self-esteem are positively correlated with each others.The results also revealed that the demographic.

variables have significant impact on the study variables. Conclusion: The current research offers strong support for the view that bullying cause internalizing and externalizing problems as well as victims are at greater psychosocial risk than bullies. Bullied people have low self esteem and more psychosocial problems and they are unable to defend him self. Result indicate that there is Impact of Bullying on Psychosocial Maladjustment and Self-confidence among Adolescents and Youngster. Teenager and Youngster with high self-esteem are able to defend himself and no psychosocial maladjustment problems.

Keywords: Bullying, Psychosocial Maladjustment, Self Esteem.