Mobbing
Mobbing is a special type of consensus bullying behavior. It is about an imbalance of social, physical or other power involving a group or a person.
Mobbing is like a "virus" or a "cancer" that spreads via gossip, rumour and innuendo. Mobbing is developed or pushed by a leader who persuades others into a systematic pattern of "mob-like" behaviour toward the target.[1]
History
[change | change source]Some European languages have adopted "mob" as a loanword to describe special kinds of bullying.[1]
Checklists
[change | change source]A checklist for identify mobbing behaviour includes[2]
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- Group focus on a critical incident that "shows what kind of person the "target" really is"[2]
- Shared belief that the target needs "to be taught a lesson"[2]
- Defamation words and reasoning about the target[2]
- Shared negative ideas about the target[2]
- Loss of diversity of argument, so that it becomes dangerous to defend the target[2]
- Addition of the target’s real or imagined mistakes[2]
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shallcross, Linda et al. (2008). "Workplace Mobbing: Expulsion, Exclusion, and Transformation," Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine 2008; retrieved 2013-2-20.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Westhues, Kenneth. Checklist of Mobbing Indicators at arts.uwaterloo.ca Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, 2006; retrieved 2013-2-20.
Other websites
[change | change source]- "Tips to Help the Bullying Bystander" at education.com Archived 2016-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
- "Tackling the Bullying Culture in Japan's Schools" at jakartaglobe.com