Bullying and the Psychological Well-Being of Students in Senior Secondary School in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria.

This study investigated bullying and psychological well-being of students in secondary schools in Eti-Osa LGA, of Lagos State. The objectives of this study are to determine relationship between bullying and psychological well-being of students, and specifically, examine how verbal bullying impacts psychological well-being of students in senior secondary school. The findings of the study revealed that (i) there is a significant correlation between verbal bullying and psychological well-being of students there is a significant correlation between bullying and psychological well-being of students. Two hypotheses were tested. The results of the Correlation Analysis of hypothesis 1 6 indicates that the coefficient of determination is -0.778 at a significant or probability value of 0.04 which is greater than 0.01. This indicates that the null hypothesis that states that “there is no significant correlation between verbal bullying and psychological well-being of students” will be accepted while the alternate hypothesis will be rejected. This implies that the high occurrence verbal bullying the weaker the psychological well-being of students. The results of the Pearson Product Moment Correlation of Hypothesis 2 indicates that the coefficient of determination is -0.899 at a significant or probability value of 0.05 which is greater than 0.01. This indicates that the alternate hypothesis that states that “there is a significant correlation between bullying and psychological well-being of students” is accepted while the null hypothesis will be rejected. This implies that bullying if not eradicated might likely affects psychological well-being of students’ by creating instability in their mental health.

Verbal Bullying, Emotional Bullying

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