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D E Terpstra

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PubMed1990

Perceptions of sexual harassment: a re-examination of gender differences.

There is mixed evidence for gender differences in perceptions of sexual harassment. To help clarify the existence of gender differences, we examined the sexual-harassment perceptions of 409 state government employees in the western United States. Few gender differences were found. We also compared the workers' perceptions to findings from a previous study of students (Terpstra & Baker, 1987). The relative ordering of the incidents' perceived severity was very similar, but workers perceived a number of incidents to be more harassing than did students. Thus, the major differences found were between students and workers, not between genders. Potential theoretical and methodological causes of these findings are discussed.

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PubMed1987

A hierarchy of sexual harassment.

Undergraduate students (143 males, 100 females) and working women (n = 48) read 18 scenarios depicting a wide range of types of sexual harassment behaviors and indicated whether they personally perceived each type of behavior to be sexual harassment. A hierarchy of harassment was developed on the basis of the subjects' perceptions. Potential differences between the perceptions of working women and female students and between the perceptions of male and female students were also investigated. Although a general consensus emerged regarding the relative perceived severity of the different types of sexual harassment, the percentage of working women who considered the behaviors to be sexual harassment was greater than the percentage of female students who considered them so.

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PubMed1986

Psychological and demographic correlates of perceptions of sexual harassment.

This study examines the relationship of American students' attitudes toward women, sex, religiosity, self-esteem, and locus of control to variations in perceptions of sexual harassment. The set of two-way interactions of these variables accounted for a substantial portion of the variance in perceptions. A model of perceptions of sexual harassment is introduced suggesting potential theoretical and empirical linkages to be tested in future research.

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