Sexual Harassment Perception, Experiences and Coping Mechanisms is a 73-item measure that covers 3 aspects of workplace sexual harassment among hospitality workers: perceptions of sexual harassment, experiences of sexual harassment and coping mechanisms of such experiences of sexual harassment.
Geographies Tested: Ethiopia
Populations Included: Female
Age Range: Adults
Perception of Sexual Harassment Questionnaire for Hospitality Workplaces (PSHQ_HW)
1. Sexual harassment is preparing for sexual harassment by making inappropriate promises.
2. Sexual harassment is preparing women for sexual harassment by providing better career advancement.
3. Sexual harassment is an offer of a new job in exchange for sexual advances.
4. Sexual harassment is an act of threatening to hurt relatives in exchange for sexual advances.
5. Sexual harassment is threatening to complain or falsely accuse about the service being provided to the immediate supervisor unless women agree to sexual favours.
6. Sexual harassment is an act of touching sexual sensitive parts while the women are at work.
7. Sexual harassment is an act of speaking random sexual jokes to women while she is at work.
8. Sexual harassment is a repeated request of women to engage in sexual activities.
9. Sexual harassment is an act of emotionally distressing women based on their gender.
10. Sexual harassment is an act of poking women with a finger, foot, or pointed object while they are at work.
11. Sexual harassment is a request telephone number of women while they are at work.
12. Sexual harassment is an act of showing pornographic movies/pictures to women while they are at work.
13. Sexual harassment is writing sexual messages on the pay bill to women while they are at work.
14. Sexual harassment is an unfair treatment of women because of their gender.
15. Sexual harassment is a forcible take of woman for sexual intercourse after they leave their job.
16. Sexual harassment is conducting sexual intercourse through force or under threat of injury against the women will.
17. Sexual harassment is slapping, kicking, pinching, or insulting women while they refuse to agree to a sexual favour.
Response Options:
Strongly Disagree - 1
Disagree - 2
Neutral - 3
Agree - 4
Strongly Agree - 5
Sexual Harassment Experiences Questionnaire for Hospitality Workplaces (SEQ_HW)
1. How often did the perpetrator offered you rewards in return for your cooperation in sexual matters?
2. How often did the perpetrator mistreat you for your refusal of cooperating with sexual matters?
3. How often did the perpetrator tell you sexually explicit jokes?
4. How often did the perpetrator sexually assaulted you in public or in private?
5. How often did the perpetrator have unwanted sexual conversations with you?
6. How often did the perpetrator did the perpetrator repeatedly ask you for sexual dates even after you refused?
7. How often did the perpetrator attempts to establish a sexual relationship with you?
8. How often did the perpetrator touch you in a way that made you feel uncomfortable?
9. How often did the perpetrator violated your personal boundaries?
10. How often did the perpetrator target you for rumours of sexual promiscuity?
11. How often did the perpetrator insult you by targeting your sexual orientation?
12. How often did the perpetrator make unwanted comments about your body, clothing, or way of living?
13. How often did the perpetrator show you sexually explicit images or objects that he found unwanted or unpleasant?
14. How often did the perpetrator make telephone calls to you or gave you letters with sexual content?
15. How often did the perpetrator make unwanted inquiries of sexual services with threats of punishment or sanctions?
16. How often did the perpetrator make sexual assaults, attempts of rape, or actual rape?
17. How often did the perpetrator unnecessarily expose themselves in front of you?
18. How often did the perpetrator threaten you by file a complaint about your service to your supervisor because you refused a sexual request?
19. How often did the perpetrator affect you by whistling, calling, or sexually honked at you?
20. How often did the perpetrator make unwelcome attempts to draw you into a discussion of sexual matters?
21. How often did the perpetrator make offensive remarks about your appearance, body, or sexual activities?
22. How often did the perpetrator make gestures or used body language of a sexual nature that embarrassed or offended you?
23. How often did the perpetrator gaze, leer, or ogle at you in a way that made you feel uncomfortable?
24. How often did the perpetrator make you feel you were being bribed with some reward to engage in sexual behaviour?
25. How often did the perpetrator make you feel threatened with some retaliation for not being sexually cooperative?
26. How often did the perpetrator make you afraid that you would be handled by him poorly if you did not cooperate sexually?
27. How often did the perpetrator make unwanted attempts to establish a romantic sexual relationship with you?
28. How often did the perpetrator continued to ask you for sexual dates, drinks, dinner, even though you said “No”?
29. How often did the perpetrator make unwanted attempts to stroke, fondle, or kiss you?
Response Options:
Never - 0
Once/Twice - 1
Sometimes - 2
Often - 3
Always - 4
The Sexual Harassment Coping Mechanisms For Hospitality Workplaces (SHCQ_HW)
1. How often have you tried to file a formal complaint about sexual harassment?
2. How often have you tried to report the perpetrator of sexual harassment?
3. How often have you tried to talk with supervisors, managers, and unions about the event of sexual harassment?
4. How often have you tried to tell the perpetrator that you do not like sexual harassment?
5. How often have you tried to forget about the event of sexual harassment?
6. How often have you tried to play games or engage in outdoor activities to forget about sexual harassment events?
7. How often have you tried to watching TV more than usual to forget about the event of sexual harassment?
8. How often have you tried to going to a friend for advice on how to change the issue of sexual harassment?
9. How often have you tried to get sympathy and understanding from friends who have had the same problem?
10. How often have you tried to talk to people about the situation because talking about it makes you feel better?
11. How often have you tried to seek reassurance from those who know you best?
12. How often have you tried to set some goals for yourself to deal with the issue of sexual harassment?
13. How often have you tried to carefully plan a course of action rather than acting on impulse?
14. How often have you tried to decided not to participate in hospitality work?
15. How often have you tried to pray while experiencing sexual harassment?
16. How often have you tried to changed your job frequently because of sexual harassment?
17. How often have you tried to bring the perpetrator to justice?
18. How often have you tried to consult a health care provider because of sexual harassment?
19. How often have you tried to consult a psychologist because of the sexual harassment that you face?
20. How often have you tried to negotiate with the perpetrator?
21. How often have you tried to discriminate against the perpetrators?
22. How often have you tried to reject the request for sexual harassment?
23. How often have you tried to confront the perpetrator?
24. How often have you tried to tolerate sexual harassment?
25. How often have you tried to keep silent to respond to sexual harassment?
26. How often have you tried to ignore sexual harassment?
27. How often have you tried to accept sexual harassment?
Response Options:
Never - 0
Once/Twice - 1
Sometimes - 2
Often - 3
Always - 4
The sum of each subscale is calculated.
Worke, M. D., Koricha, Z. B., & Debelew, G. T. (2022). Development and validation of contextual measures of sexual harassment perceptions, experiences, and coping for women employees in Ethiopian hospitality workplaces. Archives of Public Health, 80(1), 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-022-00828-z
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