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650		4	_aSEXUAL VIOLENCE _9531
999			_c5795 _d5795
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040			_aAFVC
100			_aKania, Rachel _97440
245			_aPreventing sexual violence through bystander intervention : _battitudes, behaviors, missed opportunities, and barriers to intervention among Australian university students _cRachel Kania and Jesse Cale
260			_bSage, _c2018
500			_aJournal of Interpersonal Violence, 2018, Advance online publication, 20 March 2018
520			_aThe concept of bystander intervention is gaining popularity in universities as a mechanism to prevent sexual violence. Prior research has focused on correlates of bystanders’ intentions to intervene and intervention behaviors in situations where there is a risk of sexual violence. The current study builds on this literature by exploring the nature of missed opportunities, including perceived barriers to intervention. In all, 380 Australian undergraduate university students completed an online survey. Measures included a rape myth acceptance scale, bystander intentions to intervene, actual intervention behaviors, missed opportunities for intervention, and perceived barriers for missed opportunities. Promisingly, students reported high levels of intentions to intervene in situations where there was a risk of sexual violence and reported relatively few missed opportunities to do so when these situations did occur. Intervention behaviors varied by important demographic characteristics such as gender, age, attitudes toward sexual violence, and the nature of the situation. Younger female students, with lower levels of rape myth acceptance, who had previously engaged in bystander intervention behaviors were more likely to report intentions to intervene in future risky situations, and female international students reported fewer missed opportunities for intervention. The most common barrier to intervention for identified missed opportunities was a failure to recognize situations as having a potential risk for sexual violence, and students were most likely to intervene in situations when the opportunity to help a friend in distress arose. This study provides some preliminary empirical evidence about bystander intervention against sexual violence among Australian university students, and identifies unique contexts for intervention and what current barriers to intervention may be. (Authors' abstract). Record #5795
650			_aADOLESCENT RELATIONSHIP ABUSE _93080
650			_aATTITUDES _970
650			_aDATING VIOLENCE _93263
650			_aINTERVENTION _9326
650		0	_96257 _aTERTIARY STUDENTS
650			_aYOUNG PEOPLE _9660
651		4	_aAUSTRALIA _92597
700			_aCale, Jesse _96653
773	o		_tJournal of Interpersonal Violence, 2018, Advance online publication, 20 March 2018
830			_aJournal of Interpersonal Violence _94621
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177%2F0886260518764395 _yRead abstract
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE