Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization among Adolescents in Six Countries: The Interaction between Attributions and Coping Strategies.
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.
['Wright|Michelle F|MF|', 'Yanagida|Takuya|T|', 'Macháčková|Hana|H|', 'Dědková|Lenka|L|', 'Ševčíková|Anna|A|', 'Aoyama|Ikuko|I|', 'Bayraktar|Fatih|F|', 'Kamble|Shanmukh V|SV|', 'Li|Zheng|Z|', 'Soudi|Shruti|S|', 'Lei|Li|L|', 'Shu|Chang|C|']
Cyber victimization Victimization Attribution Coping Culture Cyberbullying