S. J. Mecca

One hundred African American female college students were given Fitzgerald et al.'s (1988) SEQ and another instrument based on the SEQ in order to measure frequency of harassment and perceptions of severity for sexually harassing behaviors. Four open-ended questions were also ad…

Research on sexual harassment in academia has relied primarily on Caucasian populations to define sexual harassment, ignoring possible differences that may occur based on race of harasser or race of victim. This study contrasts the effect of an African American harasser versus a…