Journal article
Reported Incidence Rates of Work-Related Sexual Harassment in the United States: Using Meta-Analysis to Explain Reported Rate Disparities
Personnel psychology, Vol.56(3), pp.607-631
09/2003
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2003.tb00752.x
Abstract
This study presents a meta-analytic review of the incidence of sexual harassment in the U.S. The impact of 3 main moderator variables (type of survey used, sampling technique, and the type of work environment in which the study was conducted) on the reported incidence rate was estimated by cumulating incidence rates reported in the literature. Results show that directly querying the respondents about whether or not they experienced sexual harassment (vs. using questionnaires that listed behaviors believed to constitute sexual harassment), and employing probability-sampling techniques (vs. convenience sampling), led to substantially lower estimates of sexual harassment incidence. In addition, the results suggest that sexual harassment is more prevalent in organizations characterized by relatively large power differentials between organizational levels. Based on more than 86,000 respondents from 55 probability samples, on average, 58% of women report having experienced potentially harassing behaviors and 24% report having experienced sexual harassment at work.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reported Incidence Rates of Work-Related Sexual Harassment in the United States: Using Meta-Analysis to Explain Reported Rate Disparities
- Creators
- REMUS Ilies - University of FloridaNANCY Hauserman - University of IowaSUSAN Schwochau - Dickinson WrightJOHN Stibal - Equant N.V
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Personnel psychology, Vol.56(3), pp.607-631
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2003.tb00752.x
- ISSN
- 0031-5826
- eISSN
- 1744-6570
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 25
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2003
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984962894302771
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