Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization among Adolescents in Six Countries : The Interaction between Attributions and Coping Strategies

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Authors

WRIGHT Michelle YANAGIDA Takuya MACHÁČKOVÁ Hana DĚDKOVÁ Lenka ŠEVČÍKOVÁ Anna AOYAMA Ikuko BAYRAKTAR Fatih KAMBLE Shanmukh V. LI Zheng SOUDI Shruti LEI Li SHU Chang

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40653-018-0210-3
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40653-018-0210-3
Keywords Cyber victimization; Cyberbullying; Victimization; Coping; Attribution; Culture
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Description The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of publicity (private, public) and medium (face-to-face, cyber) on the associations between attributions (i.e., self-blame, aggressor-blame) and coping strategies (i.e., social support, retaliation, ignoring, helplessness) for hypothetical victimization scenarios among 3,442 adolescents (age range 11–15 years; 49% girls) from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States. When Indian and Czech adolescents made more of the aggressor-blame attribution, they used retaliation more for public face-to-face victimization when compared to private face-to-face victimization and public and private cyber victimization. In addition, helplessness was used more for public face-to-face victimization when Chinese adolescents utilized more of the aggressor-blame attribution and the self-blame attribution. Similar patterns were found for Cypriot adolescents, the self-blame attribution, and ignoring. The results have implications for the development of prevention and intervention programs that take into account the various contexts of peer victimization.
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