Coping in context: sociocultural determinants of responses to sexual harassment.

SA Wasti, LM Cortina - Journal of personality and social …, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
Journal of personality and social psychology, 2002psycnet.apa.org
The authors investigated coping responses to sexual harassment across 4 samples of
working women from 3 cultures and 2 occupational classes. Complete-link cluster analyses
provide preliminary support for DE Knapp, RH Faley, SE Ekeberg, and CLZ Dubois's (1997)
coping framework, suggesting that avoidance, denial, negotiation, advocacy seeking, and
social coping are universal responses to sexual harassment. Further, LF Fitzgerald's (1990)
internal-extemal dichotomy appears to capture higher order relationships among coping …
Abstract
The authors investigated coping responses to sexual harassment across 4 samples of working women from 3 cultures and 2 occupational classes. Complete-link cluster analyses provide preliminary support for DE Knapp, RH Faley, SE Ekeberg, and CLZ Dubois's (1997) coping framework, suggesting that avoidance, denial, negotiation, advocacy seeking, and social coping are universal responses to sexual harassment. Further, LF Fitzgerald's (1990) internal-extemal dichotomy appears to capture higher order relationships among coping responses. In addition, regression analyses suggest that Turkish and Hispanic American women engage in more avoidance than Anglo American women, and Hispanic women also use more denial but less advocacy seeking. No differences emerged in social coping. The authors discuss these results in the context of coping theory, individualism-collectivism, power distance, and patriarchal gender norms.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
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