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No Time Like The Present: Determinants Of Intentions To Engage In Bystander Anti-Racism On Behalf Of Indigenous Australians

  • Yara Frias Neto (a1) and Anne Pedersen (a1)
Abstract

The present study explored whether variables previously shown to relate to pro-social attitudes and behaviours could be applied to the intention to engage in bystander anti-racism on behalf of Indigenous Australians. 149 non-Indigenous participants were asked to indicate how likely they were to engage in bystander anti-racism in response to an ‘everyday’ racial discrimination scenario presented within an online survey. Being female, older, and politically left leaning correlated with bystander anti-racism intentions, as did higher levels of collective guilt, anger, empathic concern and lower levels of prejudice. Regression analysis revealed that being older and having higher levels of empathic concern predicted the intention to engage in bystander anti-racism. While it may seem rational that the ability to feel for the plight of another (empathic concern) is necessary for bystander anti-racism to ensue, older individuals may feel more competent in their ability to effectively intervene.

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COPYRIGHT: © The Author(s), published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd 2013 
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Address for correspondence: Yara Neto at the School of Psychology, Murdoch University, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia. Email: Y.Frias.Neto@gmail.com
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