There Is Virtually No Excuse: The Frequency and Predictors of College Students’ Bystander Intervention Behaviors Directed at Online Victimization

Henson, Billy; Fisher, Bonnie S.; Reyns, Bradford W.

doi:10.1177/1077801219835050

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“…The bystander model targets all community members as potential bystanders and seeks to engage them in prosocial behaviors that establish intolerance of violence as the norm resulting in the ultimate reduction of violence. Bystander intervention programs have been utilized to address many types of violent behaviors such as bullying, online victimization, social exclusion, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence (Coker et al, 2020;Emery et al, 2019;Henson et al, 2020;Ingram et al, 2019;Katz & Klainberg, 2019). The bystander approach is supported by research that demonstrates a number of positive outcomes including increased levels of knowledge about dangerous behaviors, increased self-efficacy, and greater willingness to intervene in prosocial ways (Moran et al, 2019;Orsini et al, 2019;Power & Leili, 2018).…”

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“Is It My Responsibility?”: A Qualitative Review of University Students’ Perspectives on Bystander Behavior

Robinson

Casiano

Elias-Lambert

2020

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Bystander interventions focus on framing violence as a community problem and encourage all community members to act as prosocial bystanders if they witness a dangerous situation. Research has demonstrated there are multiple barriers and facilitators that might discourage or encourage an individual to act as a prosocial bystander. A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis (QIMS) of existing literature was conducted to determine university students’ perspectives on bystander facilitators and barriers. A systematic search of the literature was completed to identify articles that included university students’ perspectives on bystander facilitators and barriers, utilized a qualitative methodology, and contained participant quotations in the published article. The search yielded 181 articles and after screening 10 articles were included in the QIMS. The original themes and participant quotations were qualitatively coded to develop five new themes: (1) the impact of alcohol, (2) beliefs about responsibility, (3) peer perceptions, (4) indicators and situational dilemmas, and (5) the role of friendship and group impact. The results of this synthesis reveal important implications for the continued development of bystander intervention programs for universities. By incorporating the perspectives of university students, bystander intervention programs may be more effective at encouraging students to be prosocial bystanders by confronting perceived barriers to intervention.

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“Is It My Responsibility?”: A Qualitative Review of University Students’ Perspectives on Bystander Behavior

Robinson

Casiano

Elias-Lambert

2020

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…Keep in mind, however, that bystander intervention in North American institutions of higher education prioritizes the prevention of offline rather than online abuse. Furthermore, as noted by Henson et al (2020), "bystander intervention behaviors directed at online contexts are absent from both the online victimization and bystander intervention research" (p. 505).…”

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“…Though bystander intervention was found to be an effective means of preventing both offline and online victimization (Henson et al, 2020), some cautionary notes are necessary. First, there is evidence of short-term effectiveness, but we know little about its long-term effects.…”

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Polyvictimization in the Lives of North American Female University/College Students: The Contribution of Technology-Facilitated Abuse

DeKeseredy¹,

Stoneberg²,

Lory³

2021

The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse

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Polyvictimization means looking at multiple victimizations of different kinds that one person has experienced. Virtually, all of the work in this field focuses on the effects of childhood trauma and victimization on currently distressed children, and empirical and theoretical work on the intertwining of adult female offline and online abuse experiences is in short supply. Recently, however, some scholars are starting to fill these research gaps by generating data showing that Technology-Facilitated violence and abuse are part and parcel of women's polyvictimization experiences at institutions of higher education. This chapter provides an in-depth review of the extant social scientific literature on the role Technology-Facilitated violence and abuse plays in the polyvictimization of female college/university students. In addition to proposing new ways of knowing, we suggest progressive policies and practices aimed at preventing polyvictimization on the college campus.

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“…Despite the effectiveness of this approach, bystander intervention by peers is relatively infrequent with 25% or fewer of student participants in surveys reporting having intervened in bullying episodes (O'Connell et al, 1999). Furthermore, in a recent study (Henson et al, 2020), when students were faced with a situation in which they had an opportunity to intervene in some capacity to potentially prevent online victimization, approximately 29-58% attempted to intervene in some capacity, indicating bystander intervention programs are not sufficient in dealing with bullying. Borgwald and Theixos (2013) advocate a broader integrative approach to bullying programs that includes both victims of bullying and students who bully.…”

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Exploring First-Person Perspectives in Designing a Role-Playing VR Simulation for Bullying Prevention: A Focus Group Study

Oyekoya¹,

Urbanski²,

Shynkar³

et al. 2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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Bullying is a complex and abusive form of violence that has potentially serious social and mental health consequences for children and adolescents. With reference to the Olweus Bullying Circle, this project involves the development of a simulation that will allow students to view themselves in different roles played in bullying situations using a virtual reality setting. Interventions need to explore the perspective of the student who bullies and the student being bullied, as well as the bystander in order to model desirable intervention behavior. The expectation is that through role-playing, the students will explore different perspectives and learn how to respond to bullying situations. Two focus groups were conducted to allow experts to contribute to the design of the bullying prevention simulation and gather suggestions for improvements. Findings from the focus group studies suggest that to create effective bullying prevention, Virtual Reality simulations should consider focusing on role-playing, customization of the characters, environments, scenarios and a scoring/reward system.

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There Is Virtually No Excuse: The Frequency and Predictors of College Students’ Bystander Intervention Behaviors Directed at Online Victimization

Cited by 19 publications

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“Is It My Responsibility?”: A Qualitative Review of University Students’ Perspectives on Bystander Behavior

“Is It My Responsibility?”: A Qualitative Review of University Students’ Perspectives on Bystander Behavior

Polyvictimization in the Lives of North American Female University/College Students: The Contribution of Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Exploring First-Person Perspectives in Designing a Role-Playing VR Simulation for Bullying Prevention: A Focus Group Study

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