Citation

Hoxmeier JC, O'Connor J, McMahon S. Violence Against Women 2019; 25(4): 485-505.

Affiliation

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801218790697

PMID

30062916

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.

Language: en

Keywords

bystander behavior; college students; sexual assault