ArticleInternational journal of public health2018
The effects of non-physical peer sexual harassment on high school students' psychological well-being in Norway: consistent and stable findings across studies.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- School-Based Interventions to Prevent Dating and Relationship Violence and Gender-Based Violence: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.American journal of public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Perpetrator gender in adolescent sexual harassment: prevalence and mental health associations.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Study protocol for EthnoPRISE: an ethnographic study of peer sexual harassment in school.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Investigating the Psychological Impact of Cyber-Sexual Harassment.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2024Article
- Relationship between Sexual Violence and the Health of Spanish Women-A National Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The impact of sexual violence in mid-adolescence on mental health: a UK population-based longitudinal study.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2022Article
- Associations between Teacher- and Student-directed Sexual and Physical Violence in Physical Education.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2022Article
- The Association Between Sexual Harassment and Mental Health Among Chinese College Students: Do Gender and Social Support Matter?International journal of public health · 2022Article
- The role of relational support in the longitudinal links between adolescent sexual harassment victimization and psychological health.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
- Municipal strategies and meeting minutes' descriptions of the promotion of children's mental health: a document analysis.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2021Review
- Investigating the emergence of sex differences in jealousy responses in a large community sample from an evolutionary perspective.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Body Image, Orgasmic Response, and Sexual Relationship Satisfaction: Understanding Relationships and Establishing Typologies Based on Body Image Satisfaction.Sexual medicine · 2020Article
- Sexting, Online Sexual Victimization, and Psychopathology Correlates by Sex: Depression, Anxiety, and Global Psychopathology.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Study protocol for PRISE: a longitudinal study of sexual harassment during the transition from childhood to adolescence.BMC psychology · 2019Article
- Gender differences in factors associated with symptoms of depression among high school students: an examination of the direct and indirect effects of insomnia symptoms and physical activity.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe paper examines how strongly non-physical peer sexual harassment is associated with a wide range of well-being outcomes from symptoms of depression and anxiety to self-esteem and body image.
methodsTwo large community samples of high school students were analyzed (n = 1384 and n = 1485). Students responded to questionnaires on being subject to non-physical sexual harassment, sexual coercion and forced intercourse, and to well-being indicators ranging from anxiety, depression, self-esteem, body image.
resultsRegression analyses suggest that being harassed by peers in a non-physical way was moderately associated with lower levels of well-being over and above the effect of other risk factors. This effect was present for all indicators of well-being. The effect of peer harassment on depressive symptoms was moderated by sex (affected women more) but not by sexual or ethnic minority status.
conclusionsThe findings imply that although sticks and stones may break bones, it does seem that derogatory words and other forms of non-physical sexual harassment definitely harm high school students.
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