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Sexual Harassment Reporting Attitudes Scale (SHRAS)

The Sexual Harassment Reporting Attitudes Scale (SHRAS) is an 18-item self-report measure assessing attitudes toward reporting workplace sexual harassment. Items reflect perceived risks, moral duty, and utility of reporting in 3 subscales.

Categories

Geographies Tested:

Populations Included: Female, Male

Age Range: Adults

Items:

Risks
1. Reporting workplace sexual harassment creates new problems for everyone.*
2. Supervisors have better things to do with their time than deal with reports of sexual harassment.*
3. Workplace sexual harassment problems will persist, even if people report them.*
4. In general, reporting workplace sexual harassment does no good.*
5. Reporting workplace sexual harassment only makes the problem worse.* 6. Reporting sexual harassment leads to animosity in the workplace.*
7. All things considered, reporting workplace sexual harassment is a waste of time.*
8. People who report workplace sexual harassment risk being looked upon badly by their coworkers.*
9. People who report workplace sexual harassment usually end up getting into trouble for it.*

Moral duty
10. If someone is being sexually harassed in his or her place of work, then s/he should report it to a supervisor.
11. People should not be afraid to report sexual harassment in their places of work.
12. People who witness workplace sexual harassment, but are not harassed themselves, should report it.
13. Supervisors need to take reports of workplace sexual harassment very seriously.
14. A person who reports workplace sexual harassment should not be afraid of losing his or her job because of it.
15. An employee has the right to report workplace sexual harassment to his or her supervisor.

Utility
16. Reporting workplace sexual harassment is an effective way of stopping the problem.
17. A person who reports workplace sexual harassment is just a tattletale.*

18. If I felt that I was being sexually harassed at my place of work, I would report it to a supervisor or other authority figure.

Response Options:
5-point Likert scale
Strongly Disagree - 1
Strongly Agree - 5

*Items are reverse scored

Scoring Procedures

Items are averaged for the total score.

Original Citation

Cesario, B., Parks-Stamm, E., Turgut, M., & Craig, T. (2018). Initial assessment of the psychometric properties of the Sexual Harassment Reporting Attitudes Scale. Cogent Psychology, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2018.1517629


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