Mobbing facts for kids

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.

History

Some European languages have adopted "mob" as a loanword to describe special kinds of bullying.

Checklists

A checklist for identify mobbing behaviour includes

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• Group focus on a critical incident that "shows what kind of person the "target" really is"
• Shared belief that the target needs "to be taught a lesson"
• Defamation words and reasoning about the target
• Shared negative ideas about the target
• Loss of diversity of argument, so that it becomes dangerous to defend the target
• Addition of the target’s real or imagined mistakes

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See also

In Spanish: Acoso laboral para niños