Table 1.
Participants’ behavioral intentions to cyberbullying incidents.
| First-level codes | Second-level codes | Third-level codes | Examples | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive behavioral intentions (499) | Pointing at the victim (243) | Defending the victim (34) | Everyone has his shortcomings, and he just asks. | Encouraging the victim (24) | Come on! I believe you can do it. | Comforting the victim (36) | Do not worry too much. | Helping the victim in private chat (39) | Provide suggestions to the victim in private chat. | Responding to the victim (79) | Ask if there’s anything I can do for you. | Providing suggestions to the victim (31) | Ignore the bully. Be sensible and be yourself. | |||||||
| Pointing at the bully/confronting the bully moderately (245) | Chatting with the bully in private (32) | Remind the bully to withdraw the message in private chat. | Expressing the speechlessness of the bully (6) | ………. | Telling the bully politely that you think it is wrong (50) | Point out that the bully’s way of speaking is wrong. | Stopping the bully rationally (30) | Communicate rationally, resolve problems peacefully, and act as a peacemaker. | Requiring the bully (28) | No personal attacks. | Providing suggestions to the bully (18) | You do not have to answer if you do not want to. | Persuading the bully (38) | Persuade the bully it’s not as serious as he said. | Placating the bully (2) | Oh, whl. Come on. | Breaking the ice (21) | Crack a joke to ease the situation. | Changing the subjects (20) | Talk about something happy. |
| Pointing at others (11) | Finding friends to help (2) | Mobilize people around to stop it. | Reporting to the authority (9) | Ask the administrator to kick the bully out of the chat group. | ||||||||||||||||
| Neutral behavioral intentions (89) | Inaction (89) | Keeping silent (42) | Just look at it. I will not say anything. | Disregarding (34) | Close the chat group. | Not knowing what to do (6) | I do not know what to say to mediate the dispute. | Taking a wait-and-see attitude (7) | Let me think about whether to talk in the chat group. | |||||||||||
| Negative behavioral intentions (91) | Supporting the bully (21) | Defending the bully (11) | I thought it was a harmless joke. | Watching the scene of bustle (6) | Bravo! | Pointing out the victim’s faults (3) | The victim also did something wrong. | Joining the bully (1) | I scold the victim also. Because it is silly that he cannot use Baidu to solve problems. | |||||||||||
| Confronting the bully excessively (70) | Taunting the bully (42) | Who do you think you are?/Take a hike. | Blaming the bully (11) | Denounce the bully’s behavior. | Abusing the bully (15) | Scold the bully until he apologizes. | Posting the bully’s cyberbullying on the Internet (2) | To capture a screenshot and post it on the Internet. |
The numbers in brackets indicate the frequency of such behavioral intentions.