Peer Sexual Harassment Predicts African American Girls' Psychological Distress and Sexual Experimentation

Autor/inn/en	Sagrestano, Lynda M.; Ormerod, Alayne J.; DeBlaere, Cirleen
Titel	Peer Sexual Harassment Predicts African American Girls' Psychological Distress and Sexual Experimentation
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 43 (2019) 6, S.492-499 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sagrestano, Lynda M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025419870292
Schlagwörter	Peer Relationship; Sexual Harassment; Adolescents; African American Students; Middle School Students; High School Students; Sexuality; At Risk Persons; Human Body; Self Concept; Health Behavior; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Age Differences; Tennessee; Brief Symptom Inventory; Youth Risk Behavior Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Peer-Beziehungen; Sexuelle Belästigung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Middle school; Middle schools; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Sexualität; Risikogruppe; Menschlicher Körper; Selbstkonzept; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	Peer sexual harassment (PSH) occurs frequently and across contexts during adolescence. The current study examined the relations among PSH in school, psychological distress, sexual experimentation, and sexual risk-taking in a sample of African American middle and high school girls. Results indicate that negative body appraisals mediated the relationship between PSH and psychological distress, suggesting that PSH is one way to operationalize interpersonal sexualization and sexual objectification. PSH was directly associated with sexual experimentation, but the association between PSH and sexual experimentation was not mediated by negative body appraisals. Neither PSH nor negative body appraisals were related to sexual risk-taking. This suggests that frequent exposure to high levels of sexualization and sexual objectification, in the form of PSH, is associated with more psychological distress and sexual experimentation, but not with sexual risk-taking, regardless of how girls feel about their bodies. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01