Changing Attitudes About Being a Bystander to Violence

Bystander approaches to reducing sexual violence train community members in prosocial roles to interrupt situations with risk of sexual violence and be supportive community allies after an assault. This study employs a true experimental design to evaluate the effectiveness of Bringing in the Bystander™ through 1-year post-implementation with first-year students from two universities (one rural, primarily residential; one urban, heavily commuter). We found significant change in bystander attitudes for male and female student program participants compared with the control group on both campuses, although the pattern of change depended on the combination of gender and campus.

[1]  N. Malamuth.  Attraction to Sexual Aggression Scale , 2013 .

[2]  S. Potter.  Using a Multimedia Social Marketing Campaign to Increase Active Bystanders on the College Campus , 2012, Journal of American college health : J of ACH.

[3]  V. Banyard,et al.  Variation in bystander behavior related to sexual and intimate partner violence prevention: Correlates in a sample of college students. , 2011 .

[4]  Victoria L. Banyard,et al.  Who will help prevent sexual violence: Creating an ecological model of bystander intervention. , 2011 .

[5]  S. Potter,et al.  Bringing in the Target Audience in Bystander Social Marketing Materials for Communities: Suggestions for Practitioners , 2011, Violence against women.

[6]  W. M. Fleming,et al.  The Social Justice Roots of the Mentors in Violence Prevention Model and Its Application in a High School Setting , 2011, Violence against women.

[7]  V. Banyard,et al.  Sisterhood May Be Powerful for Reducing Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence: An Evaluation of the Bringing in the Bystander In-Person Program with Sorority Members , 2011, Violence against women.

[8]  Lindsay M. Orchowski,et al.  Preventing Sexual Aggression Among College Men: An Evaluation of a Social Norms and Bystander Intervention Program , 2011, Violence against women.

[9]  J. Foubert,et al.  The Men’s Program: Does It Impact College Men’s Self-Reported Bystander Efficacy and Willingness to Intervene? , 2011, Violence against women.

[10]  M. Moynihan,et al.  Using Social Self-Identification in Social Marketing Materials Aimed at Reducing Violence Against Women on Campus , 2011, Journal of interpersonal violence.

[11]  R. Campbell,et al.  Violence and women's mental health: the impact of physical, sexual, and psychological aggression. , 2010, Annual review of clinical psychology.

[12]  M. Moynihan,et al.  Reducing Sexual Violence on Campus: The Role of Student Leaders as Empowered Bystanders , 2009 .

[13]  Shawn Meghan Burn,et al.  A Situational Model of Sexual Assault Prevention through Bystander Intervention , 2009 .

[14]  Lindsay M. Orchowski,et al.  Sexual Victimization and Health-Risk Behaviors , 2008, Journal of interpersonal violence.

[15]  V. Banyard.  Measurement and Correlates of Prosocial Bystander Behavior: The Case of Interpersonal Violence , 2008, Violence and Victims.

[16]  Victoria L. Banyard,et al.  Sexual Violence Prevention through Bystander Education: An Experimental Evaluation. , 2007 .

[17]  A. Gross,et al.  An Examination of Sexual Violence Against College Women , 2006, Violence against women.

[18]  S. Whiston,et al.  Sexual Assault Education Programs: A Meta-Analytic Examination of Their Effectiveness , 2005 .

[19]  Elizabeth A. Yeater,et al.  Rape Prevention With College Males , 2003 .

[20]  J. Stöber.  The Social Desirability Scale-17 (SDS-17): Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity, and Relations , 2001 .

[21]  Eugene R. Oetting,et al.  Community readiness: Research to practice , 2000 .

[22]  Louise Fitzgerald,et al.  Rape myth acceptance: Exploration of its structure and its measurement using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale. , 1999 .

[23]  R. K. Nichols,et al.  Examining Sex Differences in Altering Attitudes About Rape: A Test of the Elaboration Likelihood Model , 1995 .

[24]  Neil M. Malamuth,et al.  The attraction to sexual aggression scale: Part one 1 , 1989 .

[25]  Klaus Aachen.  Sexual Assault On The College Campus The Role Of Male Peer Support , 2016 .

[26]  R. Warner,et al.  How do we know if it works? Measuring outcomes in bystander-focused abuse prevention on campuses , 2014 .

[27]  V. Banyard,et al.  Document Title: Rape Prevention Through Bystander Education: Bringing a Broader Community Perspective to Sexual Violence Prevention , 2004 .

[28]  Jan M. Chaiken,et al.  The Sexual Victimization of College Women , 2000 .

[29]  T. Nelson.  Violence against women. , 1996, World watch.

[30]  Paul A. Schewe,et al.  Applied Research Forum National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women Rape Prevention and Risk Reduction: Review of the Research Literature for Practitioners , 2022 .