TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Adolescents' perception of the threat of sexual harassment: the development of an index JO - Journal of child sexual abuse A1 - Soliman, Hussein Hassan A1 - Abdelmonem, Amal Abdelmordi A1 - Koran, Jennifer SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - In Egypt female adolescents are on a daily basis victims of various forms of sexual harassment as young females are unable to justify their feelings, thoughts and behaviors toward such violent and hostile activities. Therefore, this study develops an adolescents' sexual harassment index (ASHI), which measures female adolescents' perception of the threat of sexual harassment based on cultural, environmental and societal aspects. A total of 874 adolescents age 17-18 in Egypt participated in a survey consisting of 65 items of 7 variables: threat of SH, exposure, society awareness, child's characteristics, social engagement, religiosity and the effect of the media. Using factor analysis with oblimn rotation, the analysis explained 42.38 percent of the variation in the study variables, leading to a four-factors solution: society awareness, interpersonal characteristics, personal engagement and sense of self and reality.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 1053-8712 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2019.1667469 ID - ref1 ER -