Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
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Keywords
Intimate partner violence--Prevention; Bystander effect; Drama in education; Rape--Prevention; Sex crimes--Prevention; Academic theses;
Abstract
Sexual victimization on college campuses has been and remains a concern. In 1987 Koss, Gidycz, and Wisniewski reported that the prevalence of sexual victimization, including unwanted sexual contact, sexual coercion, attempted rape, and rape, among female college students was 54 percent, nearly three times that of women in the general population. The most recent National College Women Sexual Victimization study (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000) reported that 2.8% of women experienced rape or attempted rape during the academic year, with closer to 5% experiencing violence across twelve months. These findings, and those like them, have led to a rapid increase in prevention programs on college campuses (Lonsway & Kothari, 2000). In fact, the American College Health Association (2007) has recommended, among other things, that universities incorporate sexual violence prevention into student activities in and out of the classroom. The current study is an evaluation of a program developed during the course of several successful U.S. Department of Justice campus violence prevention grants, and is currently an institutionalized program used each year with incoming first-year students at the University of Northern Iowa. The study found some support for repeated exposure to the prevention program, as those with such exposure showed significantly greater increases in reported use of active bystander behaviors between the time of the current treatment and the follow-up period. However, other hypotheses were not supported, potentially due to a higher than anticipated attrition rate between those signing up for the study and those attending.
Year of Submission
2009
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Psychology
First Advisor
Mary Losch
Second Advisor
John E. Williams
Third Advisor
Andrew Gilpin
Date Original
2009
Object Description
1 PDF file (64 leaves)
Copyright
©2009 Jennifer Nicole Crawford
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Crawford, Jennifer Nicole, "Gender Violence Prevention: The Effects of a Forum Theater Program on Bystander Efficacy and Behavior" (2009). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2432.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2432
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