TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wright, Michelle F.
A1  - Wachs, Sebastian
A1  - Yanagida, Takuya
A1  - Sevcikova, Anna
A1  - Dedkova, Lenka
A1  - Bayraktar, Fatih
A1  - Aoyama, Ikuko
A1  - Kamble, Shanmukh
A1  - Macháčková, Hana
A1  - Li, Zheng
A1  - Soudi, Shruti
A1  - Lei, Li
A1  - Shu, Chang
T1  - Coping with Public and Private Face-to-Face and Cyber Victimization among Adolescents in Six Countries
BT  - roles of Severity and Country
JF  - International journal of environmental research and public health
N2  - 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.
KW  - coping
KW  - country
KW  - culture
KW  - victimization
KW  - severity
KW  - cyberbullying
KW  - bullying
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114405
SN  - 1661-7827
SN  - 1660-4601
VL  - 19
IS  - 21
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -