By Ben Ezeohagwu
A Bully student is a learner in the classroom or school environment who intentionally and repeatedly uses his or her social status influence, physical strength, sheer wickedness or popularity to threaten, intimidate, hurt or harm another peers or others with the goal to gain undue advantage over his, her or their victim(s), among others. Bully students behaviour is unwanted, aggressive and oppressive which causes untold mental, emotional or physical distress or trauma on the victim(s), usually leaving the victim(s) feeling helpless, unsafe, dejected, isolated or such unjustified behaviour sometimes leads to death of the victim(s) subsequently if not timely checked. Bully students add no values to school engagements in the school or artisans’ setting (in informal or non-formal environment). They are great threats to any social engagement stance.
Below are common conspicuously observed handwriting (Psychographic) features of potential Bully students:
Firstly, there is manifestation of exaggerated heavy pressure texture on paper(which can be felt on the other side) this signifies aggression, tension and lack of consideration for others.
There is also a tell-tale sign of Angular handwriting which suggests unnecessary aggressive attitude and inflexibly stubborn personality trait, sort of rigidity and forcefulness of actions towards others.
Every bully student manifests disorganized script features which take forms of: uneven spaces in letters of word, between one word and the other (next) words, inconsistent variable sizes of letters and words, trizonal imbalances in the strokes of Upper-zone, middle-zone and lower-zone strokes, uneven pressure textures of letters and words, irregular rhythmic patterns of letters and words strokes in inconsistent manner.
Bully students manifest Down t-bars on the letter ‘t’ which slope downwards – serve as symptom connected to undue desire to control or force others into compliance.
There is presence of diffused handwriting stroke features, which imply that letters and words spread out unduly on the paper – manifesting undue freedom(without obedience), lack of regard and consideration for others and authority.
Bully students also manifest unstable direction on a line of their handwriting on paper which combines two or more of rectilinear, vertical, backhand or forward slant handwriting features, means that the bully students are usually mentally and emotionally unstable.
Bully students however manifest diversely stunted Upper-zone strokes and unnecessarily exaggerated lower-zone stroke features.
We should note that all these above (one through seven) highlighted handwriting features of bully students may not necessarily be found in all bully students. However, there should be three or more of the above highlighted handwriting features in most of the bully students, among others.
References
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First Published (1994). Great Britain.
Ezeohagwu, B., As A Man Writes. Glowflowers Associates.
First Published (2017), revised Edition (2018), Lagos.
Ezeohagwu, B., The Artist (2017). Glowflowers Associates. Lagos
Holder, R., You can Analyze Handwriting.
Published (1969)
Prof Ben Ezeohagwu,
Consultant graphologist
benezeohagwu@yahoo.com
