“She Wasn’t Resisting”: Students’ Barriers to Prosocial Intervention as Bystanders to Sexual Assault Risk Situations
Document Type
Article
Department or Administrative Unit
Nutrition Exercise and Health Sciences
Publication Date
7-31-2018
Abstract
The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault recommends bystander training as part of campus sexual assault prevention efforts. The current study sought to understand salient themes among students’ qualitative responses for why they did not intervene in sexual assault risk situations. In 2014, undergraduate students (N = 9,358) at a large public university completed a web-based survey to assess bystander opportunities and responses for six risk situations. Content coding analysis indicated that students report several unique barriers to intervention. These findings have important implications for bystander training programs, as well as future research on bystander behavior.
Recommended Citation
Hoxmeier, J. C., O’Connor, J., & McMahon, S. (2018). “She Wasn’t Resisting”: Students’ Barriers to Prosocial Intervention as Bystanders to Sexual Assault Risk Situations. Violence Against Women, 25(4), 485–505. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801218790697
Journal
Violence Against Women
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© The Author(s) 2018
Comments
This article was originally published in Violence Against Women. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.
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