Coping with Public and Private Face-to-Face and Cyber Victimization among Adolescents in Six Countries: Roles of Severity and Country

Autor(en)

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

Abstrakt

This study investigated the role of medium (face-to-face, cyber) and publicity (public, private) in adolescents’ perceptions of severity and coping strategies (i.e., avoidant, ignoring, helplessness, social support seeking, retaliation) for victimization, while accounting for gender and cultural values. There were 3432 adolescents (ages 11–15, 49% girls) in this study; they were from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States. Adolescents completed questionnaires on individualism and collectivism, and ratings of coping strategies and severity for public face-to-face victimization, private face-to-face victimization, public cyber victimization, and private cyber victimization. Findings revealed similarities in adolescents’ coping strategies based on perceptions of severity, publicity, and medium for some coping strategies (i.e., social support seeking, retaliation) but differential associations for other coping strategies (i.e., avoidance, helplessness, ignoring). The results of this study are important for prevention and intervention efforts because they underscore the importance of teaching effective coping strategies to adolescents, and to consider how perceptions of severity, publicity, and medium might influence the implementation of these coping strategies.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung

Externe Organisation(en)

Masaryk University, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Shizuoka University, Karnatak University, Renmin University of China, University of Virginia, Dublin City University, Universität Potsdam

Journal

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Band

19

ISSN

1660-4601

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114405

Publikationsdatum

11-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501005 Entwicklungspsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/97e4dd67-d740-4320-8498-37fcd20aa7dd