TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Face-to-face and cyber victimization among adolescents in six countries: the interaction between attributions and coping strategies JO - Journal of child and adolescent trauma A1 - Wright, Michelle F. A1 - Yanagida, Takuya A1 - Machackova, Hana A1 - Dedkova, Lenka A1 - Ševčíková, Anna A1 - Aoyama, Ikuko A1 - Bayraktar, Fatih A1 - Kamble, Shanmukh V. A1 - Li, Zheng A1 - Soudi, Shruti A1 - Lei, Li A1 - Shu, Chang SP - 99 EP - 112 VL - 11 IS - 1 N2 - The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of publicity (private, public) and medium (face-to-face, cyber) on the associations between attributions (i.e., self-blame, aggressor-blame) and coping strategies (i.e., social support, retaliation, ignoring, helplessness) for hypothetical victimization scenarios among 3,442 adolescents (age range 11-15 years; 49% girls) from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States. When Indian and Czech adolescents made more of the aggressor-blame attribution, they used retaliation more for public face-to-face victimization when compared to private face-to-face victimization and public and private cyber victimization. In addition, helplessness was used more for public face-to-face victimization when Chinese adolescents utilized more of the aggressor-blame attribution and the self-blame attribution. Similar patterns were found for Cypriot adolescents, the self-blame attribution, and ignoring. The results have implications for the development of prevention and intervention programs that take into account the various contexts of peer victimization.

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LA - en SN - 1936-1521 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40653-018-0210-3 ID - ref1 ER -