AKRAN ZORBALIĞI VE SOSYAL KAYGI
PEER VICTIMIZATION AND SOCIAL ANXIETY

Summary/Abstract: When considered as an attitude and behavior, peer victimization is that an individual inclined to do harm to people continuously disturbs students whom he thinks physically and psychologically weaker than himself in order to satisfy this desire. Types of victimization may be physical (thrusting, hitting, pulling), verbal (annoying, mocking or threatening), relational (leaving someone out of the group) or indirect (sending undesirable notes, lying or gossiping about someone). Children undergoing peer victimization are found to have lower levels of self-esteem, more negative self-esteem and shyer compared to other children. Social anxiety, on the other hand, is the apparent feeling of fear of anxiety by the individual in one or more social situation. Negative social lives within the community are effective in the increase of social anxiety.

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