TY - JOUR
T1 - High school girls’ experience of victimisation by boys: Where sexual harassment meets aggression.
T2 - Where sexual harassment meets aggression
AU - Shute, Rosalyn
AU - Owens, Laurence
AU - Slee, Phillip
PY - 2016/3/15
Y1 - 2016/3/15
N2 - School-based research into sexual harassment, on the one hand, and aggression (including bullying) on the other, originate from different disciplinary traditions, but are beginning to connect. We examined whether the sexual harassment of high school girls by boys can be regarded as a form of aggression. Year 8 to 10 girls from 5 coeducational high schools (N = 679) responded to a 24-item version of the Direct and Indirect Aggression Scale, including 6 new sexually toned items; participants indicated how often they experienced each behavior. Principal components analysis identified 4 components: direct aggression, psychological aggression, cyberbullying, and sexual harassment. The latter included the more intrusive sexually toned behaviors, whereas verbal sexualized insults were a component of psychological aggression - the component that most strongly undermined girls sense of safety at school. Research and policies on school peer victimization need to explicitly include sexual aspects, in recognition of the harmfulness of such "everyday" psychological aggression.
AB - School-based research into sexual harassment, on the one hand, and aggression (including bullying) on the other, originate from different disciplinary traditions, but are beginning to connect. We examined whether the sexual harassment of high school girls by boys can be regarded as a form of aggression. Year 8 to 10 girls from 5 coeducational high schools (N = 679) responded to a 24-item version of the Direct and Indirect Aggression Scale, including 6 new sexually toned items; participants indicated how often they experienced each behavior. Principal components analysis identified 4 components: direct aggression, psychological aggression, cyberbullying, and sexual harassment. The latter included the more intrusive sexually toned behaviors, whereas verbal sexualized insults were a component of psychological aggression - the component that most strongly undermined girls sense of safety at school. Research and policies on school peer victimization need to explicitly include sexual aspects, in recognition of the harmfulness of such "everyday" psychological aggression.
KW - Adolescent
KW - bullying
KW - gender issues
KW - school violence
KW - sexual abuse
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962815260&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10926771.2015.1129656
DO - 10.1080/10926771.2015.1129656
M3 - Article
VL - 25
SP - 269
EP - 285
JO - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
JF - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
SN - 1092-6771
IS - 3
ER -