Variations in Women’s Confidence to Act in Sexual Assault Scenarios with Indirect, Direct, and High-Risk Situation Interventions
Savannah VanDuyn (University of New England), Olivia Kudas (University of New England), Alexus Campobasso (University of New England), & Patricia J. Long (PhD, University of New England)
This is really relevant to our world today. How do we increase women’s confidence to intervene?
Sarah,
This is the million dollar question. We are investigating additional factors that may increase or decrease confidence and likelihood to intervene. For example, our preliminary data indicate that seeing a role model intervene (as seen in a vignette) increases women’s confidence as compared to when a person in a vignette simply does nothing. The context in which someone views things also makes a difference – women in general show less confidence when exposed to more sexism (again in vignettes). These give us places to think about prevention work – having people model appropriate interventions should help and decreasing sexism in situations should also help. And that’s just two tiny pieces of the puzzle.
Thank you for sharing your research and presenting at NEPA!