Emotion-Focused Coping Worsens Depressive Feelings and Health Complaints in Cyberbullied Children

Table 1

Scales and their Cronbach’s alpha.

Scale	Total items, range	α	M	SD
Victim of cyberbullying	(2, 2–8)	.68	2.6	1.2
Problem-focused general coping	(13, 13–52)	.79	26.3	6.5
Emotion-focused general coping	(31, 31–124)	.80	63.3	11.0
Problem-focused cyberspecific coping	(5, 5–20)	.59	9.8	3.1
Emotion-focused cyberspecific coping	(19, 19–76)	.85	39.2	10.6
Depressive feelings	(10, 0–20)	.82	5.6	3.9
Health complaints	(18, 0–18)	.85	6.5	4.3