Sexual Harassment and Coercion in German Academia: A Large-Scale Survey Study

Abstract: We surveyed a large sample (N = 6,217) of students and employees at a German university regarding their experiences as (potential) targets of sexual harassment and/or coercion (SH/C). Participants were asked specific questions depending on whether they had been targets of SH/C themselves, knew someone who had been affected or said they had no such experiences. Pre-registered analyses showed that women were assumed to become targets more often, and actually did become targets much more often (26.7%) than did males (4.7%; odds ratio: 7.45). Men more often had no first- or second-hand knowledge of any SH/C incidents (odds ratio: 1.75). Contrary to what participants assumed they would do if they became targets, only a very small percentage of such experiences were actually reported using the available channels. Most participants who experienced but did not report SH/C said they did not expect that doing so would lead to any consequences. Greater offence severity was associated with a s.... https://sotrap.psychopen.eu/index.php/sotrap/article/view/9349

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Sexual Harassment and Coercion in German Academia: A Large-Scale Survey Study ; volume:17 ; day:19 ; month:12 ; year:2022 ; Sexual offending ; 17 (19.12.2022)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Hoebel, Merle ; Durglishvili, Ana ; Reinold, Johanna ; Leising, Daniel

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.5964/sotrap.9349
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023111014084040696195
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.