Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
Aggress Behav. 2012 Nov-Dec;38(6):521-31. doi: 10.1002/ab.21444. Epub 2012 Jul 13.
We combine evolutionary and sociocultural accounts of sexual harassment, proposing that sexuality-related and hostility-related motives lead to different types of harassment. Specifically, men's short-term mating orientation (STMO) was hypothesized to predict only unwanted sexual attention but not gender harassment, whereas men's hostile sexism (HS) was hypothesized to predict both unwanted sexual attention and gender harassment. As part of an alleged computer-chat task, 100 male students could send sexualized personal remarks (representing unwanted sexual attention), sexist jokes (representing gender harassment), or nonharassing material to an attractive female target. Independently, participants' STMO, HS, and sexual harassment myth acceptance (SHMA) were assessed. Correlational and path analyses revealed that STMO specifically predicted unwanted sexual attention, whereas HS predicted both unwanted sexual attention and gender harassment. Furthermore, SHMA fully mediated the effect of HS on gender harassment, but did not mediate effects of STMO or HS on unwanted sexual attention. Results are discussed in relation to motivational explanations for sexual harassment and antiharassment interventions.
我们结合了进化和社会文化对性骚扰的解释，提出与性相关和与敌意相关的动机导致了不同类型的性骚扰。具体来说，我们假设男性的短期交配倾向（STMO）仅预测不受欢迎的性关注，而不预测性别骚扰，而男性的敌意性别歧视（HS）则预测不受欢迎的性关注和性别骚扰。作为一项所谓的计算机聊天任务的一部分，100 名男性学生可以向有吸引力的女性目标发送性化的个人言论（代表不受欢迎的性关注）、性别歧视笑话（代表性别骚扰）或非骚扰性材料。独立地，参与者的 STMO、HS 和性骚扰神话接受度（SHMA）得到了评估。相关和路径分析显示，STMO 专门预测不受欢迎的性关注，而 HS 则预测不受欢迎的性关注和性别骚扰。此外，SHMA 完全中介了 HS 对性别骚扰的影响，但没有中介 STMO 或 HS 对不受欢迎的性关注的影响。研究结果与性骚扰和反骚扰干预的动机解释有关。
