Re2: Hostile Hallways analysis

From: Eleanor R Linn (elinn@umich.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 15 1999 - 15:12:26 EST


This is Eleanor Linn, following up on my Friday reply to Linda Purrington.

Yes, Question 38 of the AAUW survey asked student what they did to harass
other students. It had the whole list of 14 behaviors that students were
asked earlier whether anyone had ever done to them and there were 5
possible responses for each one - often, occasionally, rarely, never; not
sure. Student responses for what they'd done correlated quite well with
student responses for what had happened to them, not person for person,
but on the whole. In other words, students admitted to a lot of
comments/jokes and students said they'd had a lot of comments/jokes made
about them. There was no strong correlation between gender and particular
behavior but that's partly because the question was spread out so much on
frequency.

Here's an example. I'd guess that those who said "forced someone to kiss
him/her" were mostly male. But 91% of the students said they'd never done
that. As a matter of fact only 32 students (2%) said they'd done that
frequently. The statistical interaction is not going to be strong then
between forced kissing and gender.
 
The only behavior that more than half the students admitted doing to
others often or occassionally was making sexual comments, jokes gestures,
or looks. The next most common was saying someone was gay or a lesbian,
which 29% admitted doing. 27% admitted to touching, grabbing or pinching
someone in a sexual way, 23% intentionally brochued up against someone
in a sexual way and 22% admitted to spreading sexual rumors.

There was no strong statistical correlation between any of these answers
and gender of the student responding, but that doesn't mean that males and
females do these thing equally. We're just at the limits of what we can
get from this questionnaire.

Eleanor Linn
elinn@umich.edu

On 2 xxx -1, Eleanor R Linn wrote:

> I think there are charts of who did what as perpetrator. I'll have to look for
them and will let you know...



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