Abstract
Sexual violence (including sexual harassment) remains a paramount issue across colleges despite numerous interventions developed focused on prevention. The most popular strategy for reducing sexual violence has been to promote bystander interventions (BI) to educate and inform students on how to react in high-risk situations. Little research has been done to understand specific beliefs around BI to stop sexual harassment. In this study, 63 undergraduates attending a western university were surveyed about their theory-based beliefs (behavioral, injunctive and descriptive normative, and control beliefs), and prominent themes were identified and translated to a theory-based survey. Next, in a separate sample of undergraduates at the same university (n=196) generalized- and belief-level constructs were evaluated, and results showed Making me proud to help others (r=0.44; psurvivors of sexual harassment(r=0.42; pyoung adults my age(r=0.33; phaving the support of my peers(r=0.41; p
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Recommended Citation
Branscum, Paul; Cristall, Ava; and Hackman, Christine (2025) "Understanding Motives and Barriers to Bystander Intervention for Preventing Sexual Harassment: A Value-Expectancy Approach," Health Behavior Research: Vol. 8: No. 4.
