Adolescents' Perceptions and Coping with Bullying and Cyberbullying: A Cross-Cultural Examination among six countries

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870535
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical psychology; Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University
• Principal Investigator: Aoyama Ikuko 静岡大学, 国際連携推進機構, 特任准教授 (60586808)
• Research Collaborator: Wright Michelle F. ; Takuya Yanagida ; Bayrakta Fatih ; Sevcikova Anna ; Kamble Shanmukh
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: いじめ / ネットいじめ / 国際比較 / コーピング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Researchers have emphasized the importance of providing adolescents with successful coping strategies to reduce their involvement in bullying behaviors. However, various factors (e.g., attribution, belief) that influence their coping strategies are often overlooked. Moreover, bullying can happen in different social contexts and adolescents' emotions to each context will vary. Therefore, the study investigated the differences in adolescents’ attributions, emotional processes, and coping strategies for face-to-face victimization versus cyber victimization. This is also cross-cultural study and the results were compared between six countries. In total, six research papers are published at international journals.

Free Research Field

教育心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ネットいじめは従来の対面式のいじめとは異なる「新しいタイプのいじめ」として研究がされてきたが、実際は２つのタイプのいじめは延長線上にあると指摘されている。実施に、本課題の一連の研究でも明らかになったように「ネット上か対面式か」というよりも、いじめが起こった際の可視性（多くの人が目撃できる状態で起きたのか否か）が、被害者の感情やコーピングプロセス、帰属意識に影響を与えることが明らかになった。これらのことから今後の予防対策においては、傍観者の役割を学校現場で伝えていく重要性が示されたと言える。