The serious negative impacts of child abuse and neglect require greater focus on understanding the factors that influence adults' willingness to intervene when they observe instances of possible abuse and neglect. This study tests whether certain reporter characteristics and experiences, such as individual and family maltreatment history/experiences and perceived knowledge of child abuse indicators, correlate with, and mediate in, the decision to intervene. Demographics and willingness to report data were collected from adults (n = 306) attending a child abuse prevention training programme in a metropolitan city. The findings indicate that perceived knowledge of child abuse indicators plays a mediation role in willingness to take action to respond to child abuse and neglect. Practice and future research implications of these findings are discussed.

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干预儿童虐待和忽视的意愿：一项探索性研究

虐待和忽视儿童的严重负面影响需要更多地关注影响成年人在观察到可能的虐待和忽视情况时进行干预的意愿的因素。这项研究测试了某些报告者的特征和经历，例如个人和家庭虐待史/经历以及对虐待儿童指标的感知知识，是否与干预决定相关并在其中起到中介作用。人口统计数据和报告数据的意愿是从成年人那里收集的（n = 306) 在大城市参加防止虐待儿童的培训计划。研究结果表明，对虐待儿童指标的感知知识在采取行动应对虐待和忽视儿童的意愿方面起着中介作用。讨论了这些发现的实践和未来研究意义。