Responses Of Male And Female Undergraduates To Scenarios Of Sexual Harassment In An Academic Setting
Abstract
This study sought to identify how individuals respond to sexual harassment in an academic setting depending on the alleged perpetrator's status. In this study, 349 male and female students from a Midwestern university were issued questionnaires consisting of 4 hypothetical scenarios involving the victim: a 19 year old college sophomore and her alleged perpetrators: a professor, a T.A., a close friend, and a stranger in her class. In each scenario the victim took offense to the perpetrators' behavior so she filed a grievance against them with the University's Review Board. Given the status of these alleged perpetrators, this study wished to establish how sexual harassment is perceived among each gender. There were two dependent variable measures collected based upon questions asked to the respondents regarding these scenarios. They were asked to rank to what extent did the perpetrators' behavior constitute sexual harassment and how reasonable they thought the victim's......
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