TY - JOUR PY - 2023// TI - Fostering college students' responsibility as prosocial bystanders to sexual violence prevention: a meta-analysis of the bringing in the bystander program JO - Journal of American college health A1 - Bouchard, Jessica A1 - Wong, Jennifer S. A1 - Lee, Chelsey SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - OBJECTIVE: To synthesize research examining the effectiveness of the sexual violence bystander program Bringing in the Bystander (BitB). Participants: The analytic sample included 2083 youth in the treatment group and 969 in the comparison group.

METHOD: A search strategy that included a total of 45 search terms was applied to 28 electronic databases.

RESULTS: The systematic search yielded a final analytic sample of 14 evaluations, with 38 independent effect sizes calculated across four outcome measures: rape myth attitudes (n = 11), bystander efficacy (n = 11), bystander intentions (n = 11), and bystander behavior (n = 5). The BitB program produced significant, positive pooled effects on measures of rape-supportive attitudes, bystander efficacy, and bystander intentions.

CONCLUSIONS: The overall results are promising and suggest that the BitB education program may be an effective tool for targeting sexual violence on campuses.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 0744-8481 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2162825 ID - ref1 ER -