@article{ref1,
title="Cybervictims' emotional responses, attributions, and coping strategies for cyber victimization: a qualitative approach",
journal="Safer communities",
year="2016",
author="Wright, Michelle F.",
volume="15",
number="3",
pages="160-169",
abstract="PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to understand cybervictims' attributions, emotional responses, and coping strategies for cyberbullying incidents that they actually experienced. <br><br>DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH There were 76 cybervictims (51 percent girls) between the ages of 12 and 14 included in this study. Adolescents participated in one-on-one interviews to provide comprehensive information about their attributions, emotional responses, and coping strategies for their actual experiences of cyberbullying. <br><br>FINDINGS Findings from the study revealed that cybervictims felt insecure and paranoid after experiencing cyber victimization. Cybervictims attributed to their experience of cyberbullying to drama or a fight between themselves and the perpetrators as well as being targeted by an ex-significant other or ex-friend seeking revenge against them for relationship dissolution. They also used adaptive (e.g. social support) and maladaptive (e.g. revenge) coping strategies to deal with cyber victimization, sometimes utilizing a combination of these strategies. <br><br>ORIGINALITY/VALUE The findings of this study could help with the design of intervention and prevention programs designed to reduce or prevent the negative effects of cyberbullying.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1757-8043",
doi="10.1108/SC-03-2016-0006",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/SC-03-2016-0006"
}