Likelihood for Youth to Report Bias-Motivated Victimization to an Adult Professional Is Influenced By Severity Level and Familiarity with the Perpetrator

Results indicate that severity of victimization (i.e. non-threatening words, threatening words, physical aggression) and level of familiarity with the perpetrator (i.e., known, unknown, known only online) significantly predicted the likelihood of reporting a bias-motivated victimization experience to an adult professional, independent of whether the victimization occurred in-person or online.