Differences in attributions for public and private face-to-face and cyber victimization among adolescents in China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States

Autor(en)

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

Abstrakt

The authors' aim was to investigate gender and cultural differences in the attributions used to determine causality for hypothetical public and private face-to-face and cyber victimization scenarios among 3,432 adolescents (age range = 11-15years; 49% girls) from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States, while accounting for their individualism and collectivism. Adolescents completed a questionnaire on cultural values and read four hypothetical victimization scenarios, including public face-to-face victimization, public cyber victimization, private face-to-face victimization, and private cyber victimization. After reading the scenarios, they rated different attributions (i.e., self-blame, aggressor-blame, joking, normative, conflict) according to how strongly they believed the attributions explained why victimization occurred. Overall, adolescents reported that they would utilize the attributions of self-blame, aggressor-blame, and normative more for public forms of victimization and face-to-face victimization than for private forms of victimization and cyber victimization. Differences were found according to gender and country of origin as well. Such findings underscore the importance of delineating between different forms of victimization when examining adolescents' attributions.

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

The Journal of Genetic Psychology: research and theory on human development

Band

178

Seiten

1-14

Anzahl der Seiten

14

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2016.1185083

Publikationsdatum

2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501005 Entwicklungspsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Life-span and Life-course Studies

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/74a24462-8316-44e7-965c-697503f25e8e