APS

APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Would You Intervene? the Relationship between Individual Personality Traits and Bystander Intervention

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Personality/Emotion

  • Cheyenne Huellen
    Pennsylvania State University, Erie
  • Theresa Buczek
    Pennsylvania State University, Erie
  • Alexandra Willmes
    Pennsylvania State University, Erie
  • Melanie Hetzel-Riggin
    Pennsylvania State University, Erie

Abstract

The current study examined how the five factors of personality influence world assumptions, rape myth acceptance, and factors of bystander interventions. Two hundred seventy-one participants completed a series of questionnaires related to this topic. The results demonstrate that personality factors were associated with bystander intervention outcomes.

Prevention/Intervention