Research of personality features of high school students being bullied in Hochiminh city

DOI: 10.18173/2354-1075.2020-0096

Abstract

Bullying is a prominent issue and has been increasingly concerned in recent years. There is some evidence that mental health problems in bullied children who are are not necessarily the result of bullying but may be a process of mental health problems. This research studies the personality of bullied students at school in aspects of clinical psychology, thereby investigating mental health problems under the dominant clinical psychological characteristics of the bullied school students. 34 high school bullied students are examined by using MMPI-A, BDI-SF. and a clinical interview. A typical personality feature of high school students being bullied is depression. Their depression has typical symptoms, such as somatic symptoms, social avoidance\discomfort, alienation, and low aspiration. Their depression includes subjective depression and psychomotor retardation and physical malfunctioning and mental dullness and brooding. Moreover, the high school students being bullied are living with anxiety, suspicion, prosecuted ideas. However, this research only focuses on bullied students who were bullied faceto-face