Self-Labeling Sexual Harassment

✍ Scribed by Vicki J. Magley; Ellen I. Shupe

• Book ID: 106528577
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-0025
• DOI: 10.1007/s11199-005-5677-3

✦ Synopsis

This study was designed to examine personal, stimulus, and organizational factors that predict the self-labeling of sexual harassment. Hypotheses were developed based on the social cognitive schema framework, which suggests that the activation of a victim's schema of sexual harassment influences self-labeling incidents as sexual harassment. Results of a secondary analysis of the 1995 Department of Defense Gender Issues dataset generally supported the hypotheses in that self-labeling is a multi-faceted process. Several findings were in the opposite direction from that predicted (e.g., perceptions that the military was implementing sexual harassment policies were negatively associated with self-labeling). Alternative explanations for the complexity of the self-labeling process were also examined.