TY - JOUR
T1 - Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization among Adolescents in Six Countries
T2 - The Interaction between Attributions and Coping Strategies
AU - Wright, Michelle F.
AU - Yanagida, Takuya
AU - Macháčková, Hana
AU - Dědková, Lenka
AU - Ševčíková, Anna
AU - Aoyama, Ikuko
AU - Bayraktar, Fatih
AU - Kamble, Shanmukh V.
AU - Li, Zheng
AU - Soudi, Shruti
AU - Lei, Li
AU - Shu, Chang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1007/s40653-018-0210-3
DO - 10.1007/s40653-018-0210-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045080021
SN - 1936-1521
VL - 11
SP - 99
EP - 112
JO - Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma
JF - Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma
IS - 1
ER -