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Role Of Personality Traits, Physical Attractiveness And Gender On Sexual Harassment
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Beauty
and physical attractiveness are highly complex concepts which have been
the subject of much research and debate within the field of psychology
(Eagly, Anshmore, Makhijiani & Longo, 1991). Although several past
investigation such as studies by Beck, ward-Hull and Miller (1976) and
Ford and Beach (1951) revealed that there are substantial individual
differences in preferences for beauty standards, more contemporary
studies have revealed that people share common views of physical
attractiveness regardless of race, age or nationality (Fink & Neare,
2005).
There is also a well known and almost universally agreed
hypothesis among social psychologists that a person’s looks affects a
variety of dimension (Marcus & Miller, 2003). Individuals that are
considered physically attractive and beautiful are perceived more
positively than those considered physically unattractive (Collins &
Zebrowitskz, 1995). For example, “ what is beautiful is Good†halo
effects (dion, Berschied, & walster, (1977) can be demonstrated
whereby individuals who are judged to be physically attractive are
perceived to have better personalities, be more sociable, dominant,
competent, confident, popular and be considered to be better employees
than those who are less attractive (Eagly, 1991) .
Furthermore, they
are also considered to be warmer, stronger, more posed, flexible in
their thoughts, mentally healthy, intelligent, and socially skilled and
more successful in their careers than those considered physically
unattractive (Feingold 1992, Hosoda, stone- Romero & Coats, 2003,
Miller, 1970).
Previous research has show that physical
attractiveness influences judgement in sexual harassment cases (
Popovich, Gehlant, Jolton, Everton, Godinho, Mastrangelo 1996).
For
example, Golden Johnson and Lopez (2001) found that physically
attractiveness victims (all of whom where women were more likely to be
labelled as harassed than the unattractive victims. This is to show that
physically attractive people are mostly victims of sexual harassment.
This is because most men that harass the ladies always go for the beautiful one or ladies that are physically attractive.
The
prototypical sexual harassment victim is a woman and the typical
perpetrator is a man- a pattern shown in a preponderance of cases
reported in the media and of laboratory Scenarios used in empirical
research. hand and Sanchez (2000) found that women were more likely than
men to perceive, experience and suffer negative outcomes from sexual
harassment.
Furthermore, individuals tend to judge the consequences
of sexual harassment directed by men towards women as more serious and
harmful than the same act directed by women towards men ( Wayne, Riordan
& Thomas, 2001).
Similar, research has also demonstrated that
male harassers are perceived more negatively than female harassers
(Baird, Bensko, bell, viney & Woody, 1995).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study examined the role of personality traits, physical attractiveness and gender on sexual harassment.A total of 300 participants comprising of 200 females and 100 males were all used for the study. The participants were students of Ebonyi state university and school of health technology Ezzamgbo.A 28 item Eysenck personality questionnaire of yes or no options were used to measure personality of participants. While a fifteen items yes/no options questionnaire were used in measuring physi ... Continue reading---
