Sexual harassment proclivities in men

An attempt is made to develop & validate a method of assessing individual differences in Ms' proclivities toward the sexual harassment of Fs. Based on the assumption that severe forms of sexual harassment are conceptually similar to rape, a self-report technique used to study rape proclivit...

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Published inSex roles Vol. 17; no. 5-6; pp. 269 - 290
Main Author PRYOR, J. B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Springer 01.09.1987
Plenum Pub. Corp
Subjects
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Illinois
Indiana
Medical sciences
Personality Traits
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Sexual behavior disorders. Psychogenic sexual dysfunctions
Sexual Harassment
Human
Rape
Sexual harassment
Sex role
Sexual violence
Sexual behavior
Predisposition
Male
Personality
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Summary:An attempt is made to develop & validate a method of assessing individual differences in Ms' proclivities toward the sexual harassment of Fs. Based on the assumption that severe forms of sexual harassment are conceptually similar to rape, a self-report technique used to study rape proclivities (see SA 30:5/82M6781) is used to design a multifactor scale to measure likelihood of sexually harassing (LSH). The LSH questionnaire contains 10 hypothetical scenarios involving M & F actors in social relationships of varying power discrepancies, & requires Rs to report how they would behave in each situation knowing that no negative consequences would result from their actions. The convergent, discriminant, & behavioral validity of the questionnaire were tested in 3 separate studies involving M undergraduates (total N = 432) at Illinois State U & the U of Notre Dame. Rs also completed other scales -- variously assessing their sex-role attitudes, sexual beliefs, opinion of feminism, acceptance of interpersonal violence, empathy, belief in the rape myth, social desirability, Machiavellianism, & authoritarianism -- or participated in an experiment designed to investigate situational effects on the interpretation of touching as sexual harassment. Results provide a partial profile of Ms who are more likely to sexually harass Fs, as well as the circumstances under which such tendencies are more likely to be expressed. In addition, results testify to the validity & reliability of the LSH questionnaire as a useful instrument in studying sexual behavior; suggestions for further uses of the instrument are offered. 2 Tables, 2 Figures, 47 References. K. Hyatt
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ISSN:0360-0025
1573-2762
DOI:10.1007/BF00288453