Female Aggression and the Effects It Has on How Its Victims Feel About School Term Paper

Female Student Aggression on Other Females' Attitudes About School - Proposed Study

This paper presents a rough draft blueprint of a proposed study about female aggression ages 10-14 and how the aggression makes girls feel about school. The writer explores various studies and sources for the purpose of presenting evidence that a study on the topic is warranted. In addition the writer discusses the elements of the proposed study including methodology and participants. There were five sources used to complete this paper.

Effects of Female Aggression on Other Females' Attitudes About School

School violence is something that has garnered recent media attention. Columbine, the shootings in an Arkansas middle school and other events have turned the nations' eye to bullies and their impact. While the cases in which someone is killed gets a lot of attention both from the media and the administrators there is a type of school violence that receives very little fan fair but affects millions of students annually across the country. Female aggression at school is not as publicized because it rarely ends in murder, however it is an issue for the many female victims of the bullies. Girls, between the ages of 10 and 14, experience changes in hormonal, emotional and physical aspects of their life. When aggression by other females is added to the equation it can be the catalyst for many school issues. This proposal is for a study of female aggression at school and how it affects the attitudes of girls between 10 and 14 about school. The study will explore how aggression makes girls feel about themselves, as well as school. The study will include questions about how safe young girls feel in their school environment and whether or not female aggression at school causes them to not want to attend their classes. Finally the study will explore what, if any impact female aggression has on school performance.

Research has shown that female aggression at school is a largely unreported event. Teasing, shunning, threatening and bullying are among the top aggressive behaviors experienced by female victims in the school setting according to past reported incidences.

One study concluded that this type of female aggression at school can and does lead to long-term anxiety and depression for some of the victims of such aggression (Can, 1998).

A survey recently conducted in the Hamilton area involving 2,500 kids found that 17% of girls and 25% of boys regularly experienced bullying. About 22% of girls and 42% of boys do the bullying, and nearly half of the kids surveyed said it's OK to bully someone you don't like. In terms of dealing with the problem, teachers estimated that they intervened in 70% of incidents, but kids say this happens only 5% to 6% of the time. In effect, when videotaped, Peplar found teachers caught only 4% of incidents (Can, 1998)."

Another study revealed that out of more than 300 girls a large number of them had been victim or knew someone who was a victim of female aggression.…