5-Stage Model Of Bystander Intervention Model

I played Soccer for 3 years during middle school. On our last game, one teammate came up with an idea to trip the other students so we could get the ball faster and get points. After this, many from the other team were getting hurt and our team was getting the ball one way or another. This is a type of Instrumental Aggression when the goal isn’t to hurt the person but our aggressions comes to complete a goal. Though it was announced that we should trip the other students, that wasn’t our goal. Our goal was to get the soccer ball and score more. For the teammate who brought out the plan was probably frustrated that our team was about 2 goals away from winning. This is an example of Frustration-Aggression Theory when the goal we have in mind is being blocked by an obstacle, so we experience frustration which then leads to aggression. Soccer is
The 5-Stage Model of Bystander Intervention is a 5-step model in which a person takes to decide if they will help a person or not. Each step has an obstacle, if the person is unable to “pass” the obstacle, they then decide not to help, however, if they pass each step on the fifth step they help the person. For the situation of the students playing soccer, the first step is what is preventing other students from intervening the type of aggression. The first step of the Model is noticing if something needs help. However, since the sport is usually aggressive many people will not intervene and say, “it's part of the game”. Another reason students may not intervene is that they are all distracted by the goal they must accomplish and not noticed what happened with the other team may be wrong. Just by having the coach bring up why this is wrong for the students to do, would help us students intervene between each other on why this is wrong and the student would help stop the