Three experiments were conducted using written vignettes depicting a man harassing a woman co-worker. The vignettes in all the experiments were designed to represent three levels of severity of harassment (mild, moderate, and severe), to represent sexual and nonsexual situations, and to be not significantly different within each level of harassment. Subjects who participated in the experiments were female undergraduate students attending General Psychology courses at Florida State University. The purpose of the experiments was to assess whether blame and stigmatization of a victim of harassment differs as a function of severity of harassment, of type of harassment, of whether or not the harassment was reported, and of consequences to the harasser. The results of the experiments indicate that subjects ascribed less blame to the woman when she reported an incident of severe harassment than when she did not report severe harassment. They also perceived the woman who reported severe harassment to be more agreeable and conscientious. An interaction between severity of the harassment and consequences to the perpetrator was also obtained. Subjects in this experiment rated the woman's character less positive when the man was fired for an incident of mild harassment, but higher when he was fired for severe harassment. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04, Section: B, page: 1663. / Director: Edwin Megargee. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77161 |
| Contributors | Correa, Maria Judith., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 307 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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