I am doing a quantitative study on bystander behavior. Can anyone point me to a link perhaps where I can get a scale or questionnaires on bystander behavior? This will be highly appreciated. Thanks a million in advance.
Dear Reynan, assuming that you're stuyding the bystander effect I wonder if you wish to examine people's self-reports of their own behavior as a bystander or their experiences with bystanders not helping them when they were in need. Both are very different things. I may be wrong but I do not think that self-report scales exist for either of them - perhaps because this seems to be one of those behaviors that people tend to misreport (many people believe that they would help when they saw someone in need, regardless of the number of bystanders). If you could clarify a bit what exactly you wish to measure I'd be happy to think a bit more about it.
Hi Reynan,
Here you have the email address to a person who used the scale: [email protected]
J Am Coll Health. 2010;59(1):3-11. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2010.483715.
Rape myth beliefs and bystander attitudes among incoming college students.
McMahon S.
J Am Coll Health. 2014;62(1):58-66. .
Measuring bystander attitudes and behavior to prevent sexual violence.
McMahon S et al.
@ Vera, I'm looking for the self-report of the individuals (bystanders) who had witnessed an incident or a crime in the past. Past experiences to avoid misreporting, because misreporting only happens if the participants merely imagine themselves as bystanders without actual or real life past experience. Sorry, it was not specified in my question, my bad :D
@ Beatrice: I've heard about McMahon's work but just can't find it anywhere. Thanks for the DOI and the titles. I'm not that savvy yet in playing with the internet. I'll look into these :D
Thanks Vera and Beatrice =)
You can ask directly for the papers!
Here is McMahon's email address:
Raynon: It sounds like you are interested in the psychology of eyewitness behavior, as opposed to bystander behavior. So, I would try internet searches on that term and you may find what you are looking for. Elizabeth Loftus did some classic work in this area several decades ago (http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03336715#page-1), and there is probably a lot (including questionnaires or scales) that derived from that work.
Raynon,
Here in France, I know several studies conducted by Chaurand, Brauer and Chekroun.
Good luck.
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