Profiles in coping: Responses to sexual harassment across persons, organizations, and cultures

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cortina, LM; Wasti, SA
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Sabanci University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.1.182
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 182-192

摘要

This study explicates the complexity of sexual harassment coping behavior among 4 diverse samples of working women: (a) working-class Hispanic Americans, (b) working-class Anglo Americans. (c) professional Turks, and (d) professional Anglo Americans. K-means cluster analysis revealed 3 common harassment coping profiles: (a) detached, (b) avoidant negotiating, and (c) support seeking. The authors then tested an integrated framework of coping profile determinants, involving social power, stressor severity, social support, and culture. Analysis of variance, chi-square, and discriminant function results identified significant determinants at each of the 4 levels of this ecological model. These findings underscore the importance of focusing on whole patterns of experience-and considering influences at the level of the individual employee and multiple levels of the surrounding context-when studying how women cope with workplace sexual harassment.