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- Title
Design and validation of the psychosexual harassment questionnaire.
- Authors
Sharifi Fard, Sayed Ali; Hasanvand, Fazlollah; Ahmadpanah, Mohammad; Zoghi Paidar, Mohammad Reza; Kazemi, Zahra; Khorram, Mahmoud Parchami
- Abstract
Background: Physical and sexual harassment has extensive psychological consequences on people's lives. Therefore, the using of a valid measure to identify this unpleasant experience in people can be useful both in determining the starting point of interventions related to victims and in general screenings in the society. In this regard, due to the lack of native and multidimensional measures to investigate this phenomenon, the aim of this study was to design and validation of the psychosexual harassment questionnaire. Methods: The research method was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of nature. The study population included all university students aged 18 to 30 in Hamadan province from 2021 -2022. From this population, a sample of 600 participants was selected based on a multi-stage cluster sampling method according to the population of the studied cities. The measures were a 27-item researcher-made psychosexual harassment questionnaire and the Ryff Psychological Well-being Scale. Results: The results showed that the factor load was 27 items appropriate and 2 items inappropriate which were removed from the questionnaire. Finally, four factors including sexual harassment, physical harassment, sexual-virtual harassment, and verbal harassment were identified, in total, four factors could explain 58% of the variance of psychosexual harassment. Based on this, the four identified factors explained 33, 1 2, 8, and 5 percent of the variance of the structure of the psychosexual harassment construct, respectively. The adequacy of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin sampling and Bartlett sphericity test (7332.2132) was calculated to be significant at the level of 0.001. The overall reliability of this questionnaire was calculated based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.91 and the reliability of physical, sexual, sexual-virtual and verbal harassment dimensions equal to 0.90, 0.88, 0.81, and 0.82, respectively. Conclusion: As a result, given the validity and reliability of this measure, researchers can use this measure to determine the level of four cases of abuse expressed. Also, due to having a nominal table and its interaction with each of the four dimensions of the measure, followed by obtaining very accurate and detailed information from the subject, clinicians can use this measure for clients and patients, especially in the category of disorders.
- Subjects
IRAN; EXPERIMENTAL design; PSYCHOLOGICAL abuse; COLLEGE students; WELL-being; RESEARCH evaluation; RESEARCH methodology; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; VIOLENCE; SEXUAL harassment; CRONBACH'S alpha; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); STATISTICAL sampling; INVECTIVE
- Publication
Journal of Injury & Violence Research, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
2008-2053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5249/jivr.v15i1.1777