Publication Date
2023
Document Type
Thesis
Committee Members
Corey E. Miller, Ph.D. (Advisor); Debra Steele-Johnson, Ph.D. (Committee Member); Nathan A. Bowling, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Abstract
Sexual harassment continues to be an important area of study. However, there’s a dearth of research regarding sexual harassment towards others that considers sex, gender, and sexual orientation. Previous research has suggested that gender harassment and heterosexist harassment are intertwined (Leskinen & Cortina, 2014), but little research has examined how the empirical and conceptual overlap of gender harassment and heterosexist harassment could allude to a more general construct, norm violation sexual harassment. Norm violation sexual harassment is an overarching construct focusing on norm violations rather than sex, gender, or sexual orientation specifically. Using two samples, my study demonstrates evidence for the unidimensional construct of norm violation sexual harassment. Moreover, I developed the norm violation sexual harassment scale (NVSHS), providing evidence for reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and its usefulness over the SHP. Therefore, the NVSHS should be considered in future harassment work and studied further to provide additional validation evidence.
Page Count
82
Department or Program
Department of Psychology
Year Degree Awarded
2023
Copyright
Copyright 2023, some rights reserved. My ETD may be copied and distributed only for non-commercial purposes and may not be modified. All use must give me credit as the original author.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
ORCID ID
0000-0001-7987-2159
