Bystander Attitudes Research Paper

Bystander Attitudes. A list of 20 prosocial bystander behaviors will be given to participants. Participants will be asked to indicate their level of willingness to engage in that particular prosocial bystander behavior using a five-point Likert scale (where 1 = not willing at all and 5 = extremely willing). A total score on bystander attitudes will be obtained by adding the ratings across the items.
Prosocial Personality Orientations. The Prosocial Personality Battery (PSB) will be used to measure prosocial personality orientations regarding social responsibility, empathic concern, moral reasoning, and self-reported altruism (Penner, Fritzsche, Craiger, & Freifeld, 1995). Participants will indicate their level of agreement with 56 items using