Adolescents value protecting
friends from harm and report that they do intervene as bystanders in friends'
risky and dangerous behavior. Moreover intervention can be effective in
reducing such behaviors.
The Protection-Risk Framework was used to explain
bystander intervention. There were 962 students from 13 Australian high schools
(mean age at time 1=13.44 years) surveyed in their 9th grade and again 1-year
later when students were in 10th grade.
We found that protective factors of
self-efficacy, support, prosocial models,
social control, and ease of opportunity related to greater intervening behavior
after 12-months. Among those who reported that they had intervened in a 3-month
period, a cumulative measure of protective factors was associated with their
reports of intervening. Risk factors were non-significant predictors after
accounting for earlier, time 1, bystander intervening behavior and demographic
factors.
The findings highlight potential mechanisms to promote adolescents'
looking out for their friends and provide an assessment over time of bystander
behavior. The theory-guided inquiry into such behavior provides a foundation on
which to better develop our understanding of benefits to adolescent friendship
in the injury field.
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- 1University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan, 2901 Baxter Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety-Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, 130 Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia. Electronic address: lisadb@umich.edu.au.
- 2Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety-Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, 130 Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia.
- Accid Anal Prev. 2016 Mar;88:187-93. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.12.023. Epub 2016 Jan 19.
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