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The Role of Coping Socialization by Peers and Parents in Adolescents' Coping with Cyber-victimization

Bradbury, Stacey Lynn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1462100514

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Clinical.
We examined the role of parent and peer coping socialization in predicting coping with cyber-victimization among 329 (49% male; 70% white) 7th and 8th grade adolescents. Adolescents self-reported their own strategies for coping with cyber-victimization, the strategies they said their parents/peers suggested they use to cope with cyber-victimization (“coaching”), and the quality of their relationships with parents/peers. For 81 of these adolescents, their parents completed a survey on the strategies that they coach their adolescents to use in response to the issue of cyberv-ictimization. Consistent with previous research, adolescents reported using positive coping strategies (e.g., problem solving, distraction) more than other strategies such as distancing and retaliation. Intraclass correlations between parents’ reports of their own coaching and adolescents’ perceptions of the strategies their parents coached were modest in magnitude, suggesting that adolescents are only somewhat accurate in identifying the strategies suggested by their parents. However, the types of coping strategies that adolescents reported being coached by both their parents and peers predicted the coping strategies that adolescents reported using. Multiple regression analysis, and follow-up comparison of regression coefficients, indicated that peer socialization was more strongly related to one’s own coping than parent socialization for all coping strategies except for distancing and problem solving. Finally, when the child-parent relationship quality was highly positive, adolescents were more likely to use the coached family/adult social support strategies. However, relationship quality with peers and parents did not moderate the relation between coping socialization and adolescents’ use of any other coping strategy. These results are promising because the strategies that adolescents report using for coping are positive coping strategies and the least reported coping strategies are distancing and retaliation. We were able to infer that adolescents’ coping is, in fact, related to what they think their parents and peers are coaching them to do. However, research is still needed to clarify how adolescents learn that using positive strategies is a more effective decision than using negative coping strategies when coping with cyber-victimization.
Eric Dubow, PhD (Committee Chair)
Thomas Chibucos , PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Dara Musher-Eizenman, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Carolyn Tompsett, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
93 p.
Psychology
Coping; Cyber-victimization; Coping socialization

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  • Bradbury, S. L. (2016). The Role of Coping Socialization by Peers and Parents in Adolescents' Coping with Cyber-victimization [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1462100514

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bradbury, Stacey . The Role of Coping Socialization by Peers and Parents in Adolescents' Coping with Cyber-victimization. 2016. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1462100514.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bradbury, Stacey . "The Role of Coping Socialization by Peers and Parents in Adolescents' Coping with Cyber-victimization." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1462100514

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