veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) suffer from distressing and disabling symptoms. many studies have shown that ptsd symptoms can negatively influence quality of life of their partners. this study was designed to assess general health, marital satisfaction and self-esteem levels of partners of iranian veterans with ptsd. we performed a case-control study. cases were comprised o...

To date there have been no studies of how both sex and ethnicity might affect the incidence of both sexual and ethnic harassment at work. This article represents an effort to fill this gap. Data from employees at 5 organizations were used to test whether minority women are subject to double jeopardy at work, experiencing the most harassment because they are both women and members of a minority ...

Using a campus climate assessment instrument developed fry Rankin (1998), we suneyed students (N = 7,347) from 10 campuses to explore the different experiences with harassment and campus climates reported fry men and women. Both men and women reported experiencing harassment, although women experienced harassment at statisticaliy significantlY higher rates than men. Women reported higher rates ...

Narratives depicting sexual harassment lawsuits have proliferated in the U.S. media ever since the U.S. population eagerly followed the sexual harassment accusations leveled at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during his Senate Confirmation Hearing in 1991 (Mayer and Abramson, 1994). This case is still referred to whenever sexual harassment is discussed in the media. A corresponding increa...

Previous sexual harassment research and theory have focused primarily upon the individual level, with little attention to teamor organization-level outcomes. In this article, we extend research on outcomes associated with sexual harassment to the team level with an examination of the relationships between team ambient sexual harassment, team conflict, team cohesion, team citizenship behaviors, ...

I conceptualize sex-based harassment as behavior that derogates an individual based on sex. I propose that sex-based harassment is fundamentally motivated by the harasser’s desire to protect or enhance his or her own sex-based status, a desire that stems from the fact that social status is stratified by a system of gender hierarchy. This theory explains currently identified forms of sexual hara...

Research has recently found that sexual harassment occurs throughout our education system. Although the focus of these studies has been on both verbal and physical sexual harassment, the literature is scant when examining just verbal sexual harassment. Using self-report data from 30 New York City middle schools, the current study adds to the literature by examining the prevalence of verbal sexu...

Background and Objective: Violence against women is a global public health problem. Although there has been much research done on violence against women, there are few studies that provide the current scientific production. Method: In this study, bibliometric analysis has been used to evaluate the 1984 documents from 1986 to 2020 based on the Scopus database. These documents were analyzed quan...