Cyber-Sexual Harassment: The Development of the Cyber-Sexual Experiences Questionnaire

Research on sexual harassment has shown that although half of all women experience unwanted sex-related behaviours in work and school, only 4% to 20% label those experiences as sexual harassment (Magley, Hulin, Fitzgerald, & DeNardo, 1999; Stockdale, Vaux, & Cashin, 1995). Moreover, while research and literature on face-to-face sexual harassment continue to grow, little research has examined sexual harassment in an Internet context. Because of this, much of what is known about Internet-based sexual harassment comes from research conducted on face-to-face sexual harassment. The current study establishes a foundation of understanding and develops a measure of experiences of sexual harassment on the Internet (i.e., cyber-sexual harassment).

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