Who Will Be a Bystander? An Exploratory Study of First-Person Perception Effects on Campus Bystander Behavioral Intentions

• Published in: Journal of family violence Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 647 - 658
• Main Authors: Mercer Kollar, Laura M., Peng, Lulu, Ports, Katie A., Shen, Lijiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.08.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Ambiguity; Analysis; Averages; Behavior; Bullying; Bystanders; Clinical Psychology; College campuses; College students; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Dating; Educational programs; Evaluation research; Internet; Intervention; Intimate partner violence; Law and Psychology; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Article; Peers; Perceptions; Polls & surveys; Prevention programs; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Quality of Life Research; Self-efficacy; Sex crimes; Sexual violence; Social desirability; Social perception; Surveys; Training; Undergraduate students; Violence; Iran; Intention to intervene; First-person effect; Bystander intervention; Third-person effect; intention to intervene; first-person effect; third-person effect

The purpose was to explore the underlying mechanisms that drive relationships between knowledge, attitudes and intervening bystander behavior to improve bystander violence prevention program effectiveness. Perceptual effects theory was used to understand third-person and first-person perceptions (TP...