Studies
2 resultsThe purpose of this study was to better understand the protective factors most critical to resilience and financial wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for women in the United States experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). The specific aims of this study were to: (1) Develop a conceptual model for economic resilience based on the Resilience Portfolio Model developed by Grych et al.; and (2) examine which economic resilience protective factors were most associated with IPV survivor health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project used a web survey design with quantitative data collected from 576 survivors through Qualtrics Panel Service in July 2022.
In this exploratory study, the research team examined factors such as power dynamics and social identity that affect a bystander's (individuals who directly or indirectly witness harassment, discrimination, or another form of violence happening to someone else) decision to intervene in events of harassment and discrimination at their workplace. The specific objectives of this study were to: (1) Understand the environment in which workplace harassment and discrimination occurs by analyzing the frequencies of individual events by type and location; (2) Assess contextual variables influencing bystander decisions through analyses of bystander interpretations of the event of harassment/discrimination and motivations for inaction/action; and (3) Contextualize bystander responses by understanding how the workplace environment and the bystander's assessment of power and identities of those involved interplay. The project used a survey design with quantitative data collected from employed adults in the United States (n=1,484) via Qualtrics online survey.