Differences in coping strategies for public and private face-to-face and cyber victimization among adolescents in six countries

Autor(en)
Michelle F. Wright, Takuya Yanagida, Anna Sevcikova, Ikuko Aoyama, Lenka Dedkova, Hana Machackova, Zheng Li, Shanmukh Vasant Kamble, Faith Bayraktar, Shruti Sourdi, Li Lei, Chang Shu
Abstrakt

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 faceto-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.

Organisation(en)
Externe Organisation(en)
Fachhochschule Oberösterreich, Masaryk University, Shizuoka University, Renmin University of China, University of Virginia, Karnatak University, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU)
Journal
International Journal of Developmental Science
Band
10
Seiten
43-53
Anzahl der Seiten
11
ISSN
2192-001X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3233/DEV-150179
Publikationsdatum
05-2016
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501005 Entwicklungspsychologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Ageing, Life-span and Life-course Studies, Developmental Neuroscience
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/4b22075a-1ebb-4c4e-ba34-17f946c4d8fa