Men's Motivation Toward Women and Sexual Harassment

Kim Hyun Jeong; 김현정

Abstract

The present study is intended to explores the psychology of men, the most likely sexual harassers based on men's self-report, within the framework of social psychology of motivation, especially focusing on men's ambivalent motive toward women. This research surveyed 485 men working in major companies in Seoul, Korea. As the results of factor analysis, first, it was found that motivation toward women is composed on two constructs; hostile sexism and benevolent sexism. The results of the stepwise regression analyses, which were performed to identify the relationships between ambivalent motives and sexual harassment, indicated that both types of sexism had an influence on sexual harassment. Hostile sexism could lead to verbal harassment, while benevolent sexism could lead to relation-request or physical/environmental harassment. The significance and limitations of this research were discussed, and a couple of suggestions for future research were mentioned.

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The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology

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Vol.3 No.1

Men's Motivation Toward Women and Sexual Harassment

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The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology