Peer sexual harassment predicts African American girls’ psychological distress and sexual experimentation
| Autor: | Cirleen DeBlaere, Lynda M. Sagrestano, Alayne J. Ormerod |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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African american
Social Psychology 05 social sciences Self-concept Psychological distress 050109 social psychology Human sexuality Education Developmental psychology Sexualization Developmental Neuroscience Developmental and Educational Psychology Harassment 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Health behavior Sexual objectification Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Behavioral Development. 43:492-499 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0651 0165-0254 |
| Popis: | Peer sexual harassment (PSH) occurs frequently and across contexts during adolescence. The current study examined the relations among PSH in school, psychological distress, sexual experimentation, and sexual risk-taking in a sample of African American middle and high school girls. Results indicate that negative body appraisals mediated the relationship between PSH and psychological distress, suggesting that PSH is one way to operationalize interpersonal sexualization and sexual objectification. PSH was directly associated with sexual experimentation, but the association between PSH and sexual experimentation was not mediated by negative body appraisals. Neither PSH nor negative body appraisals were related to sexual risk-taking. This suggests that frequent exposure to high levels of sexualization and sexual objectification, in the form of PSH, is associated with more psychological distress and sexual experimentation, but not with sexual risk-taking, regardless of how girls feel about their bodies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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