Abstract

Per Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972, many university employees are mandated reporters of sexual assault. University employees (N = 174) and students (N = 783) completed an online survey assessing knowledge and opinions of this reporting requirement. University employees and students generally reported being quite knowledgeable of reporting requirements. Most university employees indicated they would report an incident disclosed by a student, but students were fairly ambivalent about whether they would disclose to faculty members. Nearly one in five students (17.2%) indicated that Title IX reporting requirements decreased their disclosure likelihood. These findings suggest that mandated reporting policies, as well as how they are presented to students and faculty, should be examined in order to increase compliance and facilitate disclosure.

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Title
Title IX Mandated Reporting: The Views of University Employees and Students
Author
Newins, Amie R 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bernstein, Emily 1 ; Peterson, Roselyn 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Waldron, Jonathan C 2 ; White, Susan W 3 

1  Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA 
2  Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA 
3  Department of Psychology University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA 
First page
106
Publication year
2018
Publication date
2018
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
2076328X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/bs8110106
ProQuest document ID
2582793728
Copyright
© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.