Harassment of female and male high school students by teachers

Autor	PhDr. Irena Smetáčková, Ph.D., Ing. Petr Pavlík, Ph.D.
Organisation	Katedra psychologie PedF UK
Year	2011
Research type	study
Annotation	This research shows the main results of questionnaire research of student harassment experiences of 1,237 female and male high school students in the Czech Republic by their teachers. Harassment can demonstrate itself in a wide variety of behaviors, which teachers perform to strengthen their dominance over students in order to achieve a professional and/or personal advantage. In the presented research the main focus was on gender motivated and sexual behaviors, in wider context, the crossing of borders of a professional pedagogical relation between teacher and student. The results indicate that nearly 2/3 of research participants have had some experience with various types of inappropriate teacher´s behavior including unjust treatment and the application of gender stereotypes. Experiences with unwanted sexual attention were not as common and the least mentioned (but still surprisingly high) was the occurrence of sexual coercion.
Keywords	Harassment, sexual harassment, gender, teacher-student relationship
Research type	quantitative
Start date	1. 1. 2011
End date
Obor	AN Psychology
Note	Smetáčková, I., Pavlík, P. (2011). Obtěžování středoškolských studentek a studentů ze strany vyučujících. E-psychologie [online], 5 (4), 11-29 Available at WWW: . ISSN 1802-8853.
Email	irena.smetackova@pedf.cuni.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Research location	Katedra psychologie PedF UK, Myslíkova 7, Praha 1 0
Organisation	Katedra psychologie PedF UK
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