Differences in Coping Strategies for Public and Private Face-to-Face and Cyber Victimization among Adolescents in Six Countries

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Authors	WRIGHT Michelle YANAGIDA Takuya ŠEVČÍKOVÁ Anna AOYAMA Ikuko DĚDKOVÁ Lenka MACHÁČKOVÁ Hana LI Zheng KAMBLE Shanmukh V. BAYRAKTAR Fatih SOUDI Shruti LEI Li SHU Chang
Year of publication	2016
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	International Journal of Developmental Science
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/DEV-150179
Field	Psychology
Keywords	cyberbullying; online victimisation; coping strategies
Description	The aim of this study was to examine the role of publicity (private versus public) and medium (face-to-face versus cyber) in adolescents’ coping strategies for hypothetical victimization, while also considering culture. Participants were adolescents from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States. The study also controlled for adolescents’ gender, individualism, and collectivism. Adolescents completed questionnaires on the hypothetical coping strategies that they would use for four scenarios, including public face-to-face victimization, public cyber victimization, private face-to-face victimization, and private cyber victimization. Overall, the findings revealed that adolescents relied more on avoidance, social support, retaliation, helplessness, and ignoring for public and face-to-face forms of victimization than for private and cyber forms of victimization. Cross-cultural differences in coping strategies are discussed.