RT Article
T1 Associations between Severity and Attributions: Differences for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 46
IS 6
SP 843
OP 861
A1 Wright, Michelle F.
A1 Wachs, Sebastian 1981-
A1 Yanagida, Takuya 1980-
A1 Ševčíková, Anna
A1 Dědková, 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
A2 Wachs, Sebastian 1981-
A2 Yanagida, Takuya 1980-
A2 Ševčíková, Anna
A2 Dědková, Lenka
A2 Bayraktar, Fatih
A2 Aoyama, Ikuko
A2 Kamble, Shanmukh
A2 Macháčková, Hana
A2 Li, Zheng
A2 Soudi, Shruti
A2 Lei, Li
A2 Shu, Chang
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1785942441
AB Little attention has been given to whether country of origin as well as perceptions of severity impact adolescents’ attributions for public and private face-to-face and cyber victimization. The objective of the present study was to examine the role of medium (face-to-face, cyber), setting (public, private), and perceptions of severity in adolescents’ attributions for victimization, while accounting for gender and cultural values. Participants included 3,432 adolescents (ages 11–15; 49% girls) from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States. Adolescents completed a questionnaire on their cultural values and read four hypothetical peer victimization scenarios, including public face-to-face victimization, private face-to-face victimization, public cyber victimization, and private cyber victimization. They rated the severity of each scenario and how likely they would use various attributions to explain the victimization scenarios, including self-blame, aggressor-blame, joking, normative, and conflict attributions. The findings revealed that attributions varied based on severity, and that this relationship was moderated by setting and medium of victimization, as well as varied by country of origin. Taken together, the results from this study indicate complex differences in attributions based on setting, medium, perceptions of severity, and country of origin.
K1 Private
K1 Public
K1 Adolescent
K1 Severity
K1 Attribution
K1 Culture
K1 Bullying
K1 Victimization
DO 10.1007/s12103-021-09660-7