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A META-ANALYSIS OF THE ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT
CHELSEA R. WILLNESS 1 PIERS STEEL 2 KIBEOM LEE 3
  1 Department of Psychology University of Calgary
  2 Haskayne School of Business University of Calgary
  3 Department of Psychology University of Calgary
 Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Chelsea Willness, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada; willness@ucalgary.ca.

This research was supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grants 410-2003-1835, and a University of Calgary Research Services Travel Grant.

We thank Derek Chapman and Laurie Milton for their comments on drafts of this article. We also thank Candace Low, Rhiannon MacDonnell, and Ross Willness for their assistance to this project. A version of this article was presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2005.

Copyright 2007 BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC.

ABSTRACT

Sexual harassment (SH) has been identified as one of the most damaging and ubiquitous barriers to career success and satisfaction for women. This study meta-analyzed data from 41 studies, with a total sample size of nearly 70,000 respondents, to examine several negative consequences of workplace SH as well as how situational factors may play a role in facilitating these occurrences. SH experiences are associated with negative outcomes such as decreased job satisfaction, lower organizational commitment, withdrawing from work, ill physical and mental health, and even symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. In addition, organizational climate for SH figured prominently in facilitating these occurrences.


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10.1111/j.1744-6570.2007.00067.x About DOI

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