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- Title
Straatintimidatie. En dan? Een kwantitatief onderzoek naar de gevolgen van seksuele straatintimidatie van studenten in Groningen.
- Authors
Levy, Lyanne; Veenstra, René
- Abstract
Sexual harassment in the street is a form of microaggression that takes many different forms, including whistling, hissing, yelling, insulting, asking for sex, chasing, or cornering. Sexual street harassment is a social problem. A material risk of using the public realm is that some may abuse it (e.g., groping a stranger in a crowded room). A moral risk is that some people may have a mistaken sense that they have a right to make comments about people who are conspicuous in public spaces. This article examines the consequences of sexual street harassment for college students (n = 280; 84.4% female; M age = 23). In this selective sample, female students were more likely to experience street harassment than male students. Victimization of street harassment was associated with lower psychological well-being, lower perceptions of safety, and more precautions to avoid harassment. Sexual street harassment may reduce the accessibility of public spaces for victims.
- Subjects
SEXUAL harassment in universities &; colleges; HARASSMENT; SEXUAL harassment; SOCIAL problems; PUBLIC spaces; PSYCHOLOGICAL well-being
- Publication
Mens en Maatschappij, 2024, Vol 98, Issue 4, p348
- ISSN
0025-9454
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5117/MEM2023.4.003.LEVY