Inhalt: This experimental study used an ambiguous sexual harassment scenario, and manipulated gender and level of physical attractiveness within a perpetrator/victim dyad. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of sexual harassment of male and female students as well as perceptions of perpetrator and victim character traits. 296 male and 295 female undergraduate and graduate students at a large urban university were asked to read the scenario and describe behavior and character traits for perpetrator and victim using a seven-point semantic differential scale.84% (n 5495) of the sample were White, 5.3% (n 531) were African American, 5.9% (n 539) were of Hispanic origin, and 4.7% (n 528) marked other for race/ethnicity. Results indicate that female students perceived the scenario as more sexually harassing than male students. However, both men and women judged female perpetrators less harshly than male perpetrators. Both men and women were influenced by perpetrator attractiveness: they perceived an attractive opposite gender perpetrator as less harassing than a same gender attractive perpetrator.
Schlagwörter:scale; sexual harassment; sexuelle Belästigung; Skala; Stereotyp; stereotypes; Studierende;
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
