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Antecedents Of Gender Harassment: An Analysis Of Person And Situation Factors

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Gender harassment, Person x situation analysis, Sexual harassment, Social identity

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Sex Roles

Volume

61

Issue

11-12

First Page

794

Last Page

807

Abstract

Two laboratory studies examined the impact of person and situation factors in the prediction of gender harassment. Male undergraduates from a mid-sized Midwestern university in the U. S. were recruited based on an assessment of sexist attitudes. It was predicted that, across two studies, characteristics of one's personality (sexist attitudes) and situational characteristics (sexual priming and masculine identity threat) would produce unique and interactive effects in the prediction of gender harassment, defined behaviorally as the number of sexist questions asked of women during a mock job interview, and cognitively as negative evaluations of the female interviewee. Across both studies, results support the predictions that both person and situation factors are important to understanding gender harassment. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Department

Department of Psychology

Original Publication Date

11-1-2009

DOI of published version

10.1007/s11199-009-9689-2

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