Abstract
This study examined bullying behaviour and scholastic adjustment among public senior secondary school students in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State. Three research questions and three corresponding hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted correlational design. The population of the study comprised all 3,286 public senior secondary school students (SSS 1, 2 and 3) in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State. The sample comprised 400 students selected for the study through stratified random sampling technique and Taro Yemene sample size determination. The researcher developed a self-structured questionnaire titled “Bullying Behaviour and Scholastic Adjustment Questionnaire”. The instrument was validated by two experts in Measurement and Evaluation in the Department of Educational Foundations, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt. The data analyzed showed that there was a strong negative significant relationship between physical bullying behaviour, emotional bullying behaviour, sexual bullying behaviour, verbal bullying behaviour, cyber bullying behaviour and social bullying behaviour and scholastic adjustment among public senior secondary school students in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that school authorities, teachers and parents should create a conducive learning environment that will promote greater scholastic adjustment. School rules that prohibits all forms of bullying behaviour should be in-scribed on the walls of the schools. Finally, that school counsellors should help student to have a positive self-evaluation of themselves.