Consequences of sexual harassment in sport for female athletes

Fasting, Kari; Brackenridge, Celia; Walseth, Kristin

doi:10.1080/13552600208413338

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“…It is possible that the adolescents who experienced sexual abuse by a coach have now left sport, which means that an unknown proportion of the 0.8% is possibly comprised of former athletes. We already know that some athletes abandon sport following such traumatic events (Fasting, Brackenridge, & Walseth, 2002). Given the lack of difference between the groups, we could also postulate that having been sexually abused by a coach does not necessarily deter a youth from participating in sport.…”

Section: Sexual Abuse By a Coachmentioning

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Sexual Violence Experienced in the Sport Context by a Representative Sample of Quebec Adolescents

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J Interpers Violence

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This is the first study to report the prevalence of sexual violence perpetrated by a sport coach within a representative sample of the general population of adolescents aged between 14 and 17 years (N = 6 450). The questionnaire administered in high schools includes self-reported measures on a variety of dimensions relevant to the study of victimization, including sexual abuse, sexual contacts perceived as consensual, sexual harassment and involvement in an organized sport context. Descriptive and chi-square analyses were performed. The results show that 0.5% of adolescents experienced sexual abuse involving a coach. When considering all adolescents who experienced sexual abuse in their lifetime (10.2%), it appears that 5.3% of them were victims of sexual abuse by a coach. Participants also reported experiencing sexual harassment from a coach (0.4%) and consensual sexual contacts (1.2%) with a coach in the 12 months preceeding the study. Questions are raised on the overrepresentation of boys in situations of sexual victimization experiences in an organized sport context.

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Section: Sexual Abuse By a Coachmentioning

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Sexual Violence Experienced in the Sport Context by a Representative Sample of Quebec Adolescents

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Lavoie

Thibodeau

et al. 2016

J Interpers Violence

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“…Full details of the methodology of these two studies may be found in Brackenridge (1997a and b) and Fasting, Brackenridge & Walseth (2002).…”

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“…Although 'baseline' studies of sexual harassment and abuse typically involve questionnaire surveys to establish prevalence (Cawson et al, 2000;Leahy et al, 2001), the long or in-depth interview has been the method of choice for researchers conducting exploratory work on sexual exploitation in sport. One of the authors (Brackenridge, 1997a and b) conducted unstructured interviews, from which risk factors for sexual abuse in sport were extrapolated, and this work provided a framework for the interview schedule used by both Cense (1997) in the Netherlands and another of our projects (Fasting, Brackenridge & Walseth, 2002) in Norway. As yet, no researchers are known to have conducted serial interviews or gathered full life histories of either victims or perpetrators of sexual exploitation in sport.…”

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The Grooming Process in Sport: Narratives of Sexual Harassment and Abuse

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Brackenridge²

2005

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Drawing on interviews with two elite female athletes from different sports, one from a study in Norway and the other from a study in England, this article explores the process of 'grooming' in the context of sport. Both athletes experienced grooming for sex by their male coaches yet were able to stop the process at a particular point. Grooming has been used to demarcate 'sexual harassment' and 'sexual abuse' as separate points on a continuum of sexually exploitative behaviours. Grooming involves slowly gaining trust before systematically breaking down interpersonal barriers. Elite athletes can become trapped into compliance because they trust and like, or even love, their abusers. The motivation behind sexual harassment and abuse is often power whereby the harasser seeks to take control over another individual. The abusers use threats (such as being cut from the team) and rewards or privileges to secure cooperation and manipulate the victims to maintain secrecy. Our primary purpose here is to use these adapted realist tales to provide a richer and more personal illustration of these events (within-case) than is presented through extrapolated checklists of 'risk factors' (cross-case). The stories also illustrate vividly elements from the different stages in the grooming process in sport, as described in previous literature. Finally, they reinforce the need to identify protective factors as part of anti-harassment and abuse prevention programmes with both coaches and athletes.

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“…For example, Kirby, Greaves, and Hankivsky (2000) outlined how both male and female elite athletes react to sexual harassment in the environment of elite-level sport. Fasting, Brackenridge, and Walseth (2002a) reported a range of consequences for athletes who had been sexually harassed in sport, and Brackenridge and Fasting (2005) examined how athletes might resist harassers and prevent harassment from escalating into sexual abuse.…”

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