School bullying is a repetitive act of aggression designed to intentionally harm another person physically or mentally, including physical aggression, verbal aggression, relational aggression and cyber aggression. The factors that influence bullying on campus can be analyzed from many angles. In this paper, the ecosystem theory is selected to analyze the environmental factors that cause school bullying. These include microsystems of the direct environment of individual activities and interactions, intermediate systems of linkages or interrelations between microsystems. Exosystems that are not directly involved but have an impact on their development. Macrosystems that exist in the three systems of culture, subculture and social environment, and the time and latitude of psychological changes in individual growth. Hope to find the cause of campus bullying, and use this as a reference to campus bullying intervention.
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