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Role Of Personality Traits, Physical Attractiveness And Gender On Sexual Harassment
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Consistent with these
findings, we propose that there is generally shared act of sexual
harassment in which men are perpetrators and women are victims.
Yet
men may also be targets of sexual harassment. Infact, in 2001, men filed
about 15% (1, 1970) of the complaints reported to the equal employment
opportunity commission (EEOC, 2003). Male sexual harassment complaints
however violate the typical sexual harassment schema and gender
stereotype- based expectations.
Burgess & borgida (1997) noted
that victims of sexual coercion are seen as powerless and vulnerable
adjectives that are contrary to the masculine gender stereotype. People
who violate such stereotype-based expectations are likely to be
negative, evaluated (Jussim, coleman, & Lerch, 1987, Marin &
Guadargo, 1999).
Hence, male complaints are likely to be rated less
favourable than female complaints. And this shows that males are more
likely to engage in sexual harassment than females.
1.2 Statement of the problem
Sexual harassment is a problem faced mostly by workers in the workplace and by students in the educational institutions.
However, sexual harassment usually involves a male harasser and a females victims ( Terpstra & Cook, 1985).
The
possible causes of this problem are the type of personality traits that
some people have and also the rate at which the female’s victims are
physically attractive.
This problem has negatively impacted on the
social emotional and psychological wellbeing of the female victims. If
workers were sexual harassed, then their morale, productivity and
quality of work may be undermined (Fitzgerald, Drasgow & Clipatrick,
1997).
Till date, there has been little evaluation of the role of
personality trait, physical attractiveness and gender on sexual
harassment.
In order to understand the motivation for this, it is
important that this research is conducted to determine the role of these
variables in sexual harassment. The researcher intends to answer the
following questions.
1. Will there be difference between personality traits and sexual harassment?
2. Will there be difference between physical unattractiveness and sexual harassment?
3. Will there be difference between gender and sexual harassment?
1.3 PURPOSES OF THE STUDY
The
general objective of the study is to examine the role of personality
traits, physical attractiveness and gender on sexual harassment.
Specifically, the essences of the study are:
1. To determine whether there will be difference between personality traits and sexual harassment.
2. To determine whether there will be difference between physical attractiveness and sexual harassment.
3. To determine whether there will be difference between gender and sexual harassment.
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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---
