Boys, too, Suffer from Sexual Harassment
URBANA, Ill. (UPI) -- Girls are harassed more frequently, but boys are indirectly, yet negatively, affected via a school climate that tolerates harassment, a U.S. study said. Study leader Alayne J. Ormerod of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign surveyed 300 girls and 250 boys from seven public high schools in the Midwest. Ormerod examined the relationship among peer-to-peer sexual harassment, school climate, adult-to-student harassment and outcomes for the students. The study, published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly, found girls had more frequent, upsetting experiences of peer harassment and girls also reported more frequent and distressing harassment from school personnel than boys. Male students reported fewer, less upsetting experiences of harassment and had fewer stress-related consequences directly associated with harassment. However, the damaging effects of harassment extended beyond those directly harmed. For girls and boys, a school climate associated with experiences of sexual harassment was related to feeling unsafe while at school, withdrawal from school and feelings of lowered self-esteem, the study said. For boys, a climate tolerating the harassment of girls, was the major variable associated with negative psychological, health and educational outcomes, Ormerod said.
URBANA, Ill. (UPI) -- Girls are harassed more frequently, but boys are indirectly, yet negatively, affected via a school climate that tolerates harassment, a U.S. study said. Study leader Alayne J. Ormerod of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign surveyed 300 girls and 250 boys from seven public high schools in the Midwest. Ormerod examined the relationship among peer-to-peer sexual harassment, school climate, adult-to-student harassment and outcomes for the students. The study, published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly, found girls had more frequent, upsetting experiences of peer harassment and girls also reported more frequent and distressing harassment from school personnel than boys. Male students reported fewer, less upsetting experiences of harassment and had fewer stress-related consequences directly associated with harassment. However, the damaging effects of harassment extended beyond those directly harmed. For girls and boys, a school climate associated with experiences of sexual harassment was related to feeling unsafe while at school, withdrawal from school and feelings of lowered self-esteem, the study said. For boys, a climate tolerating the harassment of girls, was the major variable associated with negative psychological, health and educational outcomes, Ormerod said.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
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