International Perspectives on Sexual Harassment of College Students

Paludi, Michele A.; Nydegger, Rudy V.; DeSouza, Eros; Nydegger, Liesl A.; Dicker, Kelsey Allen

doi:10.1196/annals.1385.012

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“…In exploring the various ways in which victims of sexual entrapment tried to cope and deal with the experience and the various actions taken aftermath, 55.3% of victims adopted an effective coping mechanism, such as talking to someone about it, going to the health center for a medical checkup and reporting the incident to a school authority, while the rest adopted ineffective coping mechanisms, such as avoiding relationship with people, avoiding activities, attempting suicide, resulting to sexual risky practices, resulting to sexually entrapping others and harming the perpetrator. This finding relates to the modes of reactions established by Michele et al 26 , which include advocacy/help seeking, social coping (i.e. seeking support from friends), avoidance/denial (i.e.…”

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confidence: 54%

Knowledge, perception and experience of sexual entrapment among undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

2019

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Background: Deceit into sexual activities without the victim being aware of the intended action is common in tertiary institutions as the environment promote activities that make students vulnerable, especially females, young and new students. The resulting physical, psychological and social consequences, including harassment, sexual assault, non-consensual sex, injury, psychological trauma and suicide attempts, have affected many young people. This study was aimed at exploring the knowledge, perception, experience of sexual entrapment among undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Methods: This multi-stage cross-sectional survey involved 422 participants using semi-structured questionnaire and an in-depth interview guide. Quantitative data were analyzed statistically, while Qualitative data was analyzed thematically. Results: Mean age of respondents was 20.5±3.0 years, 52.6% were males, 58.8% and 81% had a good knowledge and perception of sexual entrapment, respectively. Prevalence of sexual entrapment was 18%, affecting more males (55.3%) and first year students (39.5%), 59.2% of the perpetrators are friends of the victim. Students were entrapped on campus through; emotional support (42.1%), money (34.2%), accommodation assistance (7.9%), material things/gifts (21.1%), assignment assistance (10.5%), help with registration (4.0%), religious activities (6.6%), debt repayment (11.8%) and counseling (9.2%). It resulted to; unwanted sex (34%), rape (4%), pregnancy (1.3%), STDs (4%), Injury (13%), psychological trauma (27.6%), loss of trust (52.6%) and attempted suicide (23.7%) among victims. Effective coping mechanisms were adopted by 55.3% of respondents. There was a significant association between knowledge and perception; knowledge and experience; perception and experience (p<0.05). Findings from the in-depth interview revealed care, tutoring, political positions, and pretense to need help as other tactics. Conclusions: Sexual entrapment is common on campus, affecting males and females, knowledge and perception influence experience of sexual entrapment, requiring the need for a holistic approach to reduce its prevalence.

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Knowledge, perception and experience of sexual entrapment among undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

2019

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“…There were relatively few cases of lecturers harassing students (6.7% of the incidents reported by students), which differs from other findings which have found as rates as high as 53.2% of cases were perpetrated by lecturers (cf. Paludi, Nydegger, Desouza, Nydegger, & Dicker, 2006). Yet it is the exploitation of students by lecturers that catch media and public attention (e.g., Singh, Motsai, & Mulaudzi, 2014).…”

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Experiences of Gender-Based Violence at a South African University: Prevalence and Effect on Rape Myth Acceptance

Finchilescu

Dugard

2018

J Interpers Violence

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Instances of gender-based violence (GBV) on university campuses are rarely reported to the authorities. This makes it difficult to gauge the prevalence of this problem, which in turn affects efforts for prevention. This article describes a university-wide online survey aimed at assessing, first, the prevalence of GBV experienced by the three sectors in the community-students, academic and research staff, and professional/administrative staff. Many of the findings concurred with research elsewhere-students were the predominant victims of GBV; men were the main perpetrators; and instances of rape occurred mainly when the victim/survivor was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. In contrast to some of the more well-known U.S. surveys (e.g., Georgetown University), we found relatively few instances of students being exploited by staff members. Occurrences of contrapower harassment were also reported in our survey. The second aim investigated whether rape myth acceptance was related to experiences of GBV. We found that women who had these experiences were more rejecting of rape myths than women who had not had such experiences. The opposite was found for White men. White men who had experienced GBV were more accepting of the rape myths than those who had not had such experiences. It was suggested that this reflected a need for these male victims to establish their hegemonic masculine identity. In general, the level of rape myth acceptance was relatively low. This suggested that widespread victim-blame, and self-blame does not account for the low levels of GBV reports to officials. A limitation of the study was the relatively low response rate (1,350 respondents), which was likely caused by the student protests over university fees that were ongoing at the time of the survey. These protests caused considerable disturbance for all sectors of the university community.

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“…A reason for this may be that we specifically did not include patients as potential perpetrators of sexual harassment. Socio-cultural differences have been reported in international comparisons for studies on sexual harassment [17], [18]. It also needs to be taken into account when comparing surveys conducted in different countries [5], [6], [13] that different upbringing and general attitudes in the countries will have a decisive influence on the reactions of students to the experiences.…”

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confidence: 99%

Wie häufig und belastend sind negative Erfahrungen im Medizinstudium? – Ergebnisse einer Online-Befragung von Medizinstudierenden

Gágyor¹,

Hilbert

Chenot

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GMS Zeitschrift Für Medizinische Ausbildung; 29(4):Doc55; ISSN 1860-3572

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International Perspectives on Sexual Harassment of College Students

Cited by 32 publications

References 42 publications

Knowledge, perception and experience of sexual entrapment among undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Knowledge, perception and experience of sexual entrapment among undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Experiences of Gender-Based Violence at a South African University: Prevalence and Effect on Rape Myth Acceptance

Wie häufig und belastend sind negative Erfahrungen im Medizinstudium? – Ergebnisse einer Online-Befragung von Medizinstudierenden

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