Differences in Severity and Emotions for Public and Private Face-to-Face and Cyber Victimization Across Six Countries

Autor(en)

Michelle F. Wright, Takuya Yanagida, Ikuko Aoyama, Anna Ševčíková, Hana Macháčková, Lenka Dědková, Zheng Li, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Fatih Bayraktar, Shruti Soudi, Li Lei, Chang Shu

Abstrakt

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of medium (face-to-face, cyber) and publicity (public, private) in perceptions of severity and emotional responses to victimization among adolescents from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States, while controlling for gender, individualism, and collectivism. There were 3,432 adolescents (age range = 11-15 years, 49% girls) included in this study. They read four hypothetical victimization scenarios, which were manipulated based on the medium and publicity, including public face-to-face victimization, private face-to-face victimization, public cyber victimization, and private cyber victimization. After reading the scenarios, adolescents rated the severity of each scenario and their feelings of anger, sadness, and embarrassment following victimization. Overall, higher severity related to each of the emotional responses. Furthermore, greater perceptions of severity increased adolescents’ feelings of anger, sadness, and embarrassment more often for public victimization and face-to-face victimization than for private victimization and cyber victimization. Some variations were found in these associations based on country of origin. The findings from this study indicate that perceived severity and emotional responses are different in various victimization contexts. Therefore, it is important to consider various victimization contexts.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

Masaryk University, Fachhochschule Oberösterreich, Shizuoka University, Renmin University of China, Karnatak University, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), University of Virginia

Journal

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Band

48

Seiten

1216-1229

Anzahl der Seiten

14

ISSN

0022-0221

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022116675413

Publikationsdatum

09-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501005 Entwicklungspsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Social Psychology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/10a44c26-3373-444c-b0c4-d57f0904d838