Casper, Deborah M Witte, Tricia Gibson, Emily McCulley, Emily
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Journal of interpersonal violence
The goals of this mixed-methods study were to examine self-reported behavior of bystanders who intervened in specific situations of potential sexual violence and physical dating violence, to explore their sense of preparedness to intervene, and to assess bystanders' emotional reactions to their self-reported action or inaction when witnessing poten...
Orchowski, Lindsay M Oesterle, Daniel W Haikalis, Michelle
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Although rates of sexual aggression are high among college men who engage in heavy drinking, little is known regarding how often heavy drinking college men initiate unwanted sexual advances towards women that could lead to a potential sexual assault or the reasons why these advances stop or proceed. The present study describes heavy drinking colleg...
Zelin, Alexandra I Branda, Brittany Tino, Riley
Published in
Violence against women
Sexual violence affects one in four college-aged women. Multiple studies support the use of bystander prevention programs to help reduce the amount of sexual violence occurring; however, bystander action is dependent upon recognizing occurrences of sexual harassment. The present study investigated perceptions of sexually harassing behaviors in two ...
Nardi-Rodríguez, Ainara Paredes-López, Nerea
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Violence against women
During the pandemic, neighbors can be potential allies to prevent intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW). Based on the reasoned action approach, we identified the predictors and the most relevant beliefs behind neighbors' intention to report to authorities that a woman is being victimized by IPVAW. A total of 352 Spanish participants compl...
Verhelle, Helena Vertommen, Tine Peters, Gjalt-Jorn Ygram
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
Given their central role and position, coaches are instrumental in creating safe sport environments, especially in preventing sexual violence, but little is known about bystander behaviors, hampering the development of effective bystander programs in the context of sport. To identify determining characteristics of bystander behavior, 1,442 Belgian ...
Jiang, Shuyang Liu, Ru-De Ding, Yi Jiang, Ronghuan Fu, Xinchen Hong, Wei
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Recent studies have suggested a link between bullying victimization and passive bystander behaviors, such as more outsider behaviors and fewer defender behaviors. However, little is known about the internal mechanism underpinning this relation. The present study aimed to examine the direct and indirect relationships between bullying victimization a...
Wong, Y Joel McDermott, Ryon C Zounlome, Nelson O O Klann, Elyssa M Peterson, Zoë D
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Grounded in the self-persuasion paradigm (an indirect persuasion approach, which places people in situations that motivate them to change their behavior), this study evaluated a brief, online intervention to reduce sexual aggression perpetration and increase prosocial bystander behaviors among heterosexual male college students (N = 241) in the Uni...
Marcantonio, Tiffany L Willis, Malachi Schisler, Eric D
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Sexual assault victimization (SAV) histories may impede, increase, or have no effect on women's risk recognition. Yet, even though risk recognition is a component of bystander intervention, the effect of SAV on bystander behaviors is understudied. For example, how different SAV histories, such as the severity of the assault and if women were revict...
Berke, Danielle S Leone, Ruschelle M Hyatt, Courtland S Zeichner, Amos Parrott, Dominic J
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Extant literature suggests that men may be less likely than women to engage in prosocial bystander behavior to interrupt sexual and relationship violence. However, there has been little consideration of the influence of masculine gender role discrepancy and masculine discrepancy stress (i.e., stress that occurs when men perceive themselves as falli...
Jouriles, Ernest N Sargent, Kelli S Salis, Katie Lee Caiozzo, Christina Rosenfield, David Cascardi, Michele Grych, John H O'Leary, K Daniel McDonald, Renee
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Previous research has demonstrated that college students who view TakeCARE, a video bystander program designed to encourage students to take action to prevent sexual and relationship violence (i.e., bystander behavior), display more bystander behavior relative to students who view a control video. The current study aimed to replicate and extend the...
