Sexual Harassment - Science topic

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OK. I suggest the Journal of Sexual Health Psychology.

Best wishes

It is always possible to combine two models. I have no idea what "model 7" or "model 15" refers to.

Thank you- I hope regression will be enough to justify that these interactions are similar.

Hello Tessa,

The answer depends principally on what you mean by a "difference," and therefore what the specific outcome is that you wish to compare (and how it gets quantified).

Do you mean:

1. Frequency of harassment incidents from guests vs. from co-workers?

2. Recency of the latest harassment incident (from guests vs. from co-workers)?

3. Perception of inacceptability of harassment (e.g., on a scale from 0, none at all, to 10, so bad that you would leave the country)

4. Judgment of who is more likely to engage in harassment?

5. Perception of how egregious a sin harassment represents if from a guest vs. if from a co-worker?

6. Something else?

If you could elaborate a bit on this aspect of your research, I believe that you'd be far more likely to get recommendations that you'd find helpful.

Good luck with your work.

To use or simply for references' sake?

First, you're trying to investigate a difficult and elusive topic - humour - combined with a sensitive topic - sexual harassment - and with a problematic population - teenagers. This isn't just a question of method, but demands the highest level of skill and sensitivity from the investigator. Unless you are experienced you might want to reconsider. Ethnography would be the best approach as a) humour is contextual b) you need time to build up trust with your population to get beyond the silly jokey stage c) it would be really valuable to witness an incident unfolding as the "I was joking" definition is always a retrospective defence. In the absence of the, and assuming that you have the tact, patience and intuition necessary, you can still do good research but you may have to improvise your methods creatively to suit the characteristics of your respondents - some will be more comfortable with focus groups, some with 1-2-1.Know what you want, but let them shape the interaction equally. Teenagers can produce wonderful "data" if you know how to handle them and open them up. They are full of ideas and opinions. Try using some case examples for a focus group to discuss - they respond to tasks - and let them relate those to their own experience. Your success will be down to how well you choose/write the cases, and facilitate the group. Don't expect to explicate the rules of interaction/humour/sexual attraction and repulsion too tightly though. Be prepared to use unorthodox methods like creative drawing to stimulate interaction. Stay mission focused rather than method led.

You are right and many thanks for the suggestions Frieda Mah

The Royal College of Nursing (UK) have published a guide to broader harassment and bullying - https://www2.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/78518/001497.pdf - and a more detailed and more recent website - https://www.rcn.org.uk/get-help/rcn-advice/bullying-and-harassment.

It is assumed that gendered language demean the position of women in any situation and make them feel subordinated. Thereby it may also act as a factor of sexual harassment of women at workplace. 

As Cindy has said more is better but at the same time here, one should be cautious while including new people in the move, lest they prove to be regressive because as somebody has said, all the religions of the world are based on womens exploitation. So discrimination is very likely to be set in their minds.

Just a few that you may have come across already. There's a lot more about "bullying" in medicine which might be able to provide a broader context for environment.

Without even identifying verbal or physical abuse, what about the inherent violence of participating in academic programmes and workloads and lifestyles? The following is a reflection I crafted after a student colleague (Sonia) and I shared how difficult work-study-life balance can be. This is about the violence we tolerate chaffingly when we undertake academic study. I suppose that if I (or we as students) tolerate violence of this sort I have written about, then is it any wonder other sorts of violence and participation in it, is rife at universities, polytechnics, schools, kindergartens, families, societies?

Good day. If by "harassment" in the workplaces you mean “workplace bullying” or “workplace mobbing”, I suggest you three papers and one book by Dr. Heinz Leymann:

-Mobbbing and Psychological Terror in the Workplaces (1990)

-The content and development of mobbing at work (1996)

-Mobbing at work and the development of post-traumatic stress disorders (1996)

-Workplace Mobbing as Psychological Terrorism: How Groups Eliminate Unwanted Members (1992/2010)

Four papers by Dr. Kenneth Westhues:

-At the Mercy of the mob (in any workplace - 2002)

-The unkindly art of mobbing (in academic workplaces - 2006)

-Ten Choices in the Study of Workplace Mobbing or Bullying (2006)

-WAMI (The Waterloo Anti-Mobbing Instruments) (2004)

And some websites:

Hope this will be useful.

Kind regards,

Psych. Sergio Navarrete Vázquez

Dear Cathy

To my knowledge there seems to be no reliable data on AA membership, and I am not aware of any on 13-th stepping (other than your own).

If I may offer some ideas:

Reports on sexual predatory behaviour in 12-step fellowships tend to focus on males as predators. Anecdotes by long-time abstinent male members tell of frequent advances by female newcomers. It would be interesting to know more about this as well.

It would be interesting to know how 13th-stepping in AA compares to similar behaviour in other organisations, societies and the workplace. Ideally, any findings would be evaluated in the context of the attitudes in the general population and differences between cultures.

On gender and AA, this study might be of interest: "Does Alcoholics Anonymous work differently for men and women? A moderated multiple-mediation analysis in a large clinical sample." (Kelly & Hoeppner, 2012)

kind regards

Oliver

Dear Bryan,

Early career sexual harassment – a workplace stressor which leads to long term depressive effects, anger, mixed feelings, and self-doubt for both men and women

Dan DeFoe On November 11, 2012

Psycholawlogy A bridge between applied psychology and the legal profession.

Dear Mr. Wangchuk, it is great that you are conducting the same study in Bhutan. It will surely be interesting to compare our results. I look forward to it.

I think the best thing to do will be to conduct a qualitative social science study and to use tools that are prepared on one of behavior change theories. The process of data collection should be context and culture sensitive with high level of flexibility. Issues of safety to both participants and data collectors is of paramount importance and should be considered ahead of time.

But being anonymous one should be able to share the details. Don't you think its more of an avoidance technique when one doesn't want to talk about an issue?

Thankyou for your guidance it is really helpful...

Choosing sample is not an easy job for this kind of sensitive research basically snowball sampling will provide a good chance to reach those who are victimised

Atleast two of our students here at the Intl. Islamic University ave worked on this topic. You can look up the MS dissertations on the HEC website.

I don't think so. Mainly because of their being in significantly smaller numbers. Interview or focus group discussions would be better.

Yes. There are many reasons why.

First, if men and women are both harassed, then looking at both sexes gives a better picture of the problem.

Second, you did not say "sexually harassed"—which would not change the answer anyway—but if both men and women are harassed on the job, you need to understand the full extent of the picture. When it comes to sexual harassment, more women are usually harassed than men, so knowing how both men and women view the problem would be important.

Third, men and women see the world differently. Recently, in Africa, one of my colleagues asked trainees about the governmental data about expendable resources were accurate. The men said "yes," the women said "no,"..."men spend 100% of their expendable income on entertainment (women) and alcohol and women spend zero." Thus, the 50% was accurate, but in no way gave the full picture.

Fourth, why wouldn't you? As my professor of gender communication in graduate school once said, "Sex/gender only matter when they matter." Unless you have some reason to believe that gathering data from both sexes would influence your findings negatively, or could not be done safely/accurately, you should always ask both groups.

Fifth, if you are doing this survey electronically, you probably have no way to be sure of the sex/gender of your respondents. People lie about themselves online all the time, and people are often reluctant to tell the truth about sensitive topics when their identity is known—and this could be a problem with "human subjects approval" if your school enforces that. This will be a methodological problem you will need to deal with.

Many studies have been done on work place harassment in Pakistan, you can contact media departments of different universities for sharing their findings.

Hi! look at this paper, maybe its useful for you