Introduction

Bullying affects academic performance in teenagers in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Bullying has

developed in such a magnitude that academic performance has decreased on large scales

these days in teenagers. As a matter of fact this century has been a whole new platform for

society growth itself; ideals that were not accepted 20 years ago are now pillars of society.

Even though the growth and development the world have exceed the ideals, it is still not

mature enough to see and understand the destruction happening in the surroundings. Not just

material destruction but life destruction. Applying the main focus on Tegucigalpa, Honduras

what is going to be studied is: the reasons, causes, effects and power that bullying has over

the conflict of, academic performance.

On the first chapter the approach given to the research will be clarifying the research

problem; from bullying’s origin, its development, and how it had affected teenagers in

Tegucigalpa, Honduras in their academic performance. See into the way that Bullying is not

contributing to society, talking about teenagers that are not completely formed in their

education causing them to not be ready to go out chasing real life; because the great

importance given to this nonconformity students are not reaching to acquire the knowledge

being taught to them. This produces the lack of higher levels of academic performance.

On the second chapter the center will be the investigation through surveys and research to

observe and analyze how Bullying had been affecting academic performance. Also one wants

to get more professional opinions and statements, meaning interviews are going to be realized

to professionals in this case; psychologists, teachers, and parents of the individuals that are

being affected by this phenomenon. More deeply into the focus of this research, which is the
effect bullying has in academic performance, it will be demonstrated which amount of

individuals are truly affected by it or the other part of individuals that see it as not an

influence in their performance.

On the third chapter it will be presented the final explanation of how Bullying works and

affects this task, academic performance. Now this one will present evaluated and accepted

researches and investigations that were already studied, and analyze both of the resources

obtained, meaning the data obtained by ones hand and the data obtained and analyzed by

previous investigations.

Background

The term used to connect students with their academic performance in this case is bullying.

To understand where bullying comes from it is necessary to define the term. Bullying is

unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived

power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.

Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems. Bullying

includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or

verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. [ CITATION USD18 \l 18442 ]

Since Bullying it is not just a social issue at Honduras, there is a need to approach it as a

cultural phenomenon, not just talking about one country. The fact that it is not just found in

Honduran society, but in worldwide societies, there is a need to consider it has deeper origins

rather than only Honduras culture. By some resources, the point made was that bullying

rather than having a cultural origin; it is part of human nature itself. This means that bullying

may have not been called these way years ago but still it was manifested and part of society’s
daily life. As a matter of fact in will never depend on were one lives, bullying is present in

each individual at every place no matter culture.

That being stated it is clear to observe how Bullying will not just affect Honduran students in

their academic performance but it will do the same at every other country in the world.

Making more emphasize in Honduran society it’s shown that according to the report

"Violence in schools", published by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), half of

students between 13 and 15 years of age state that they have experienced peer violence in and

around the schools. [ CITATION Onc18 \l 18442 ]

Problem Definition

Based on statistics, outside this research, professionals and others it will be demonstrated

how much bullying works in the effect produced to individuals, in this case teenage students,

in their academic performance; having in mind the most influential factors such as: the

amount of teenagers that provided needed information, professional’s knowledge, books with

based on the topic, and other additional sources the following facts are under questioning:

 How much is bullying affecting Tegucigalpa teenager’s academic performance?

 Does the statistics vary depending on the country?

 What is Bullying? Which are bullying types?

 Which type of bullying has greater impact on the performance?

Problem Statement

Society often has the question in mind about how certain trends reach a level of importance in

them. Honduras as a country in development process, focusing in Tegucigalpa; the city has

not been correctly managed in matters of education, economics, among others. Bullying in
Honduras increases each day, forcing society to open their arms to accept it as part of the

system, which is incorrect.

Finding a full view of how the situation has been managed or has not been dealt with

correctly will lead into a short but, concrete amount of variables to solve this social issue.

Honduran society will have a voice, as well as bullying itself will have its own based on

investigations, professionals and paper works. Truth is bullying is affecting every aspect of

daily life, how will it not be affecting the most common area?

Problem Formulation

The lack of interest on bullying side effects in society makes academic performance low its

normal rates as well to damage Tegucigalpa’s teenager’s stability.

Project Objective

Present what is bullying, and the major influence it has in academic performance, more into

Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Specific Objectives

• Analyze how bullying influences academic performance.

• Identify the most common bullying types that influence academic performance.

• Identify the impact bullying have in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Hypothesis

Academic performance is affected by a variety of factors, bullying being of them. Not just the

victim but the bully itself both will indeed be alternating their academic performance either in

a positive or negative way. Many rising organizations give support and try to make awareness

of this social issue, but still they do not manage to reach the ultimate goal which is
eradicating or at least reducing bullying among society. That being stated for this

investigation the hypothesis is that bullying does affect and cause academic performance

decrease or increase.

Independent variable: The way academic performance is affected. It could be in a positive

way, this means that the focus given to the social issue is less and because of it the main

focus is academics.

Dependent variable: Bullying itself is the stable variable.