Comparison of legal standards in sexual harassment hostile work environment

<p>This research compares the previously studied reasonable person and reasonable woman legal standards with a new reasonable employee standard on hostile work environment sexual harassment. Participants included 115 college students from a mid-Atlantic university. Measures were taken across genuine legal cases based on explicit, ambiguous, and non-traditional occupation fact patterns. No statistically significant difference was found among legal standards on measures of severity, hostile work environment, because of sex or conduct unwelcome. There was however a statistically significant difference between fact patterns on liability. Age, employment experience, and being a victim of sexual harassment produced statistically significant interactions with legal standards on several measures as well.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. in Mental Health Counseling and Applied Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2008

Author dc:creator

• Rice, Jeanne M. O'Brien

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gaer, Eleanor

• Sexual harassment--Law and legislation; Work environment
• Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/753

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:rdw.rowan.edu:etd-1750