Coping with sexual harassment

Reconceptualizing women's resistance

Bibliographic Data

ID6203561
AuthorsVicki J Magley (0000-0003-1638-6537, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume83
Issue4
Pages930-946
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037//0022-3514.83.4.930
PMID12374445
OpenAlexW4251445087
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited28

This study explored the underlying structure of women's coping with sexual harassment from a rational-empirical approach. On the basis of multidimensional scaling, clustering, and confirmatory factor analysis across 8 data sets, 4 clusters of coping behaviors emerged, with little variance across the data sets. These clusters bear resemblance to Moos and colleagues' (C. J. Holahan, R. H. Moos, & J. A. Schaefer, 1996; R. Moos, 1992; R. H. Moos & J. A. Schaefer, 1993) distinction between coping strategies that differ in both method and foci. The four clusters that emerged are behavioral engagement, behavioral disengagement, cognitive engagement, and cognitive disengagement. This framework provides insight into the complex forms that women's coping with sexual harassment takes and has important legal implications

Categorization · Cognition · Confirmatory factor analysis · Coping (psychology · Developmental psychology · Disengagement theory · Harassment · Multidimensional scaling · Resistance (ecology · Sexual behavior · Structural equation modeling · Child Abuse and Trauma · Clinical Psychology · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology

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