@article{ref1,
title="Authoritative school climate and sexual harassment: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis of student self-reports",
journal="School psychology",
year="2019",
author="Crowley, Brittany Z. and Datta, Pooja and Stohlman, Shelby and Cornell, Dewey and Konold, Tim",
volume="34",
number="5",
pages="469-478",
abstract="School sexual harassment (SH) is defined as unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature that interferes with a student's ability to learn. There is an important need for schools to assess the prevalence of SH and its relation to school climate to guide intervention efforts. This study investigated 3 research questions: (a) Is there psychometric support for a 4-item multilevel measure of SH? (b) What is the prevalence of SH in a statewide high school sample, and how does SH vary across gender, grade level, race-ethnicity, and socioeconomic status? (c) Is an authoritative school climate--characterized by strict but fair discipline and supportive teacher-student relationships--associated with lower levels of SH for students? A statewide sample of high school students (N = 62,679) completed a school climate survey that included a new 4-item measure of SH. <br><br>RESULTS of a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis indicated good fit for a single SH factor at both student and school levels. A multiway analysis of variance demonstrated the high prevalence of SH and variations across demographic groups. Multilevel hierarchical regression analyses indicated that an authoritative school climate accounted for 5.7% of the student-level variance and 38.3% of the school-level variance in SH scores. Routine assessment of SH can help school psychologists bring attention to this underrecognized problem. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2578-4218",
doi="10.1037/spq0000303",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/spq0000303"
}