Gender differences in bystander response to risk for party rape
Nguyen L.J.; Katz J.
2016
Victims and Victimization: Risk Factors, Intervention Strategies and Socioemotional Outcomes
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This study investigated individual differences in bystander responses to potential party rape scenarios. In these scenarios, an intoxicated woman was escorted by an apparently sober man into a private bedroom. Undergraduate students at a small liberal arts college (N = 209) read this scenario and responded to measures of intent to intervene, barriers to intervention, and rape myth acceptance. As expected, intent to intervene was negatively correlated with barriers to intervention and rape myth acceptance. Also as expected, compared to women, men reported less intent to intervene, perceived more barriers to intervention, and reported greater rape myths acceptance. Multivariate analyses showed that barriers to intervention mediated the association between bystander gender and intent to intervene. Bystander education programs that explicitly address barriers to active intervention, including risk identification, acceptance of responsibility to intervene, skills deficits and audience inhibition, may help engage both men and women as active bystanders in sexual assault prevention. © 2016 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
Bystander; Gender; Sexual assault
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