Self-Labeling Sexual Harassment

Author： Magley Vicki   Shupe Ellen  

Publisher： Springer Publishing Company

ISSN： 0360-0025

Source： Sex Roles, Vol.53, Iss.3-4, 2005-08, pp. : 173-189

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Abstract

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.

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