ABSTRACT

Women face heightened risk of sexual assault and a growing body of research has suggested that bystanders play a key role in preventing violence against women. To date, research has not fully explored bystander responses following a sexual assault event. Using self-categorization theory, this study employed an experimental design with 361 surveys using randomly-assigned vignettes to examine participant relationship with victim/perpetrator dyads and participant sex on intentions to intervene and help the victim in a post-sexual assault scenario. A bivariate correlation matrix and three-way factorial ANOVA were estimated to test hypotheses. Bystanders reported increased intentions to intervene when they were “friends” with the victim, but not the perpetrator. Women respondents were more likely to provide victim-centered interventions than men. Both two-way and three-way interactions were not significant; participant sex did not moderate the effect of relational distance to the victim or perpetrator on intervention.

摘要

妇女面临性侵犯的风险增加，越来越多的研究表明，旁观者在防止暴力侵害妇女方面起着关键作用。迄今为止，研究还没有充分探讨以下情况下的旁观者反应性侵犯事件。使用自我分类理论，本研究采用了一项实验设计，该研究使用随机分配的小插图进行了361次调查，以检验参与者与受害者/犯罪者二元组的关系以及参与者在性侵犯后进行干预的意图并帮助受害者。估计一个二元相关矩阵和三项因式方差分析以检验假设。旁观者报告说，当他们与受害者（而不是肇事者）成为“朋友”时，有更多的干预意图。与男性相比，女性受访者更有可能提供以受害者为中心的干预措施。双向和双向交互均不显着；参与者的性别并没有减轻与受害者或犯罪者之间的距离对干预的影响。