Question

Fourteen-year-old Karen is angry at her classmate, Joan. Karen doesn't want to get into a physical altercation with Joan, though. Instead, she starts a rumor that Joan is a shoplifter and that Joan tried to steal someone else's boyfriend. Karen's behavior is an example of
A) conduct disorder.
B) overt aggression.
C) relational aggression.
D) subtle aggression.

Answer 1

The correct choice of answers from the statement is C) Relational aggression

Further explanation

Bullying is the use of violence, threats or coercion to abuse or intimidate others. This includes verbal harassment or threats, physical violence or coercion and can be directed repeatedly to certain victims based on religion, ability, gender, race and so forth.

As for some of the causes of this bullying behavior, including:

• There is a sense of wanting to rule
• As a result of the lack of attention from people around
• The perpetrator has been a victim of violence
• Due to frequent fighting
• As a result of imitating acts of violence from movies or games
• And so forth

In addition to the causes there are 2 forms of bullying, which are as follows:

Physical Bullying

This form of bullying is carried out with physical contact that causes physical pain, injury, injury, or another physical suffering. Examples of forms of physical bullying are hitting, kicking, etc.

Psychological Bullying

This form of oppression causes psychological trauma, fear, depression, anxiety, stress and also anxiety/upset for recipients of bullying.

There are several types of bullying, one of which is relational aggression which will be discussed below.

Relational Aggression is one type of bullying that is very difficult to know in our social environment, the possibility of people closest, such as friends, teachers, even parents are very difficult to detect when we are experiencing this condition. Because this type of bullying does not involve physicality or use painful words directly in front of us. But in disguise, one of which is the ability to manipulate and gossip painful about us spreads in our social environment slowly. Sometimes, people who experience this are often depressed and feel insecure, because it involves mental processes and sensitivity to the surrounding environment

The signs of relational aggression are as follows:

• They stay away from you for no apparent reason
• They give strange expressions when you say hello
• They gossip about bad things about you
• Without you knowing, they form gangs to dislike you
• The poor condition of the social environment will slowly affect your psychological state.

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Details

Class: High School

Subject: Advanced placement

Keyword: Types of bullying.

Answer 2

The answer is (c.) relational aggression.
Karen is having a relational aggression or abusive relationship with Joan. Relational Aggression is causing harm to someone by damaging someone’s relationship or social status like the way how Karen damage the dignity of Joan just because she’s not into her.