This study examined the gender beliefs and norms expressed by South Asian community members when intervening as bystanders in Peerformance, a publicly performed scene depicting a husband’s controlling behavior toward his wife enacted by a peer-led theater group. Using a grounded theory approach, inductive coding and reiterative visual analysis of videotaped bystander interactions revealed that, while most community members confronted the husband, beliefs about gender roles and relations impacted how these confrontations occurred. The complexity of gender norms in bystanders’ interventions calls for sociocultural tailoring; bystander programs must attend to the rich, within-group variations in community members’ attitudes and beliefs.

这项研究检查了南亚社区成员在作为旁观者进行干预时表达的性别信仰和规范Peerformance是一个公开表演的场景，描绘了由同伴领导的剧团制定的丈夫对妻子的控制行为。使用扎根理论方法，对旁观者互动录像的归纳编码和反复视觉分析表明，虽然大多数社区成员与丈夫对质，但对性别角色和关系的信念影响了这些对峙的发生方式。旁观者干预中性别规范的复杂性要求对社会文化进行调整；旁观者计划必须关注社区成员态度和信仰的丰富的群体内部差异。