Who will Help in Situations of Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring Personal Attitudes and Bystander Behaviours

Signal,

doi:10.6000/1929-4409.2013.02.20

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“…Studies in this area have mainly examined the factors that can act as barriers and facilitators of intervening in IPVAW situations (i.e. [ 37 , 38 ]) but few have focused on identifying predictors of bystander behaviors in IPVAW scenarios [ 25 , 38 – 40 ], including one in Spain [ 41 ]. However, in general terms, these studies did not analyze the predictors of diverse specific (non-) helping behaviors.…”

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Willingness to help women victims of intimate partner violence in a Spanish context: Differential factors, interactions and predictors

Nardi-Rodríguez,

Sánchez-Prada,

Delgado-Álvarez

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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This article presents two cross-sectional studies that group the most relevant (and potential) factors contemplated in the bystander literature on Intimate Partner Violence Against Women, (IPVAW). We analyzed their relationship with the intention to respond to hypothetical scenarios with specific helping behaviors based on the witnesses’ gender, political ideology and on the bystander effect (study 1). We also studied them as predictors of helping behaviors (study 2). In total, 1,563 Spanish people participated in study 1 and 755 Spanish people in study 2. Participants had to study an IPVAW vignette (with a single bystander or multiple bystanders) and a control scenario (a robbery with a woman as victim or a man) and assess the perceived severity of the situation, the perceived responsibility of the victim and the aggressor(s), the personal perceived responsibility of the bystander and the intention to perform 8 helping behaviors. They also fulfilled a social desirability scale (study 1 and 2), the Inventory of Distorted Thoughts about Women and Violence and the Scale on Gender Ideology (study 2). Women tend to assess the IPVAW scenario in a way that favors displaying active helping behaviors to a greater extent than men. An individual’s political opinion has also shown to affect the assessment and, to a lesser extent, the intention to help an IPVAW victim. The bystander effect only takes place when negative attitudes are present. When analyzing the interaction between the type of violence (gender versus non-gender-based violence) and the above-mentioned variables, the results tend to confirm previous studies. Regarding the predictors of the helping behaviors, perceived personal responsibility is key, together with victim blaming attitudes or the perceived severity of the situation. This study expands the knowledge on bystander behaviors in IPVAW contexts and offers elements to work on awareness campaigns.

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Willingness to help women victims of intimate partner violence in a Spanish context: Differential factors, interactions and predictors

Nardi-Rodríguez,

Sánchez-Prada,

Delgado-Álvarez

et al. 2024

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“…Understanding attitudes towards IPV is important, as they may be predictive of willingness to intervene in IPV situations. Further, non-intervention by bystanders may be perceived by both victim and perpetrator as validating the IPV behavior (Lazarus & Signal, 2013). There are two key theories that can help explain factors that influence bystanders' willingness to intervene in IPV scenarios; they are attribution theory (Weiner, 1980) and the bystander effect (Latane & Darley, 1968).…”

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Attribution Theory, Bystander Effect and Willingness to Intervene in Intimate Partner Violence

Wijaya

Roberts

Kane

2021

J Interpers Violence

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a crime that is afflicted by a current or previous romantic relationship partner. One in four women has experienced IPV at least once in their lifetime, with physical and psychological consequences. IPV cases tend to go largely unnoticed and under-reported, with low rates of intervention by bystanders. This cross-sectional correlational study investigated whether a combination of attribution theory and the bystander effect could predict the willingness of strangers to intervene in IPV. There were two models tested. The first model examined attitudes towards the victim, while the second one examined attitudes towards the perpetrator. The relationship between perceived responsibility and willingness to intervene was hypothesized to be mediated by sympathy and anger, with the number of bystanders as a moderator to mediating pathways (sympathy towards victim and anger towards perpetrator). A convenience sample of 278 Australian residents aged 18-years and older was presented in a vignette depicting an IPV incident occurring in public. Participants completed measures about the vignette in an online questionnaire. Model testing was conducted using MPlus; confirmatory factor analysis indicated a good fit of the measurement models. After controlling potential covariates, moderated mediation models of victim and perpetrator were analyzed. Attribution theory was a significant predictor in willingness to intervene ( f² = .23, p < .001), but the bystander effect was not. Both attitudes towards victim and perpetrator accounted for unique variance in willingness to intervene in IPV, highlighting the importance of examining both. Findings indicate that psychoeducation campaigns aimed at reducing victim-blaming and promoting intervening behavior could be an effective means of preventing IPV.

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Who will Help in Situations of Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring Personal Attitudes and Bystander Behaviours

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Willingness to help women victims of intimate partner violence in a Spanish context: Differential factors, interactions and predictors

Willingness to help women victims of intimate partner violence in a Spanish context: Differential factors, interactions and predictors

Attribution Theory, Bystander Effect and Willingness to Intervene in Intimate Partner Violence

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