TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Coping with public and private face-to-face and cyber victimization among adolescents in six countries: roles of severity and country JO - International journal of environmental research and public health A1 - Wright, Michelle F. A1 - Wachs, Sebastian A1 - Yanagida, Takuya A1 - Ševčíková, Anna A1 - Dedkova, Lenka A1 - Bayraktar, Fatih A1 - Aoyama, Ikuko A1 - Kamble, Shanmukh V. A1 - Machackova, Hana A1 - Li, Zheng A1 - Soudi, Shruti A1 - Lei, Li A1 - Shu, Chang SP - e14405 EP - e14405 VL - 19 IS - 21 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.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 1661-7827 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114405 ID - ref1 ER -