Street harassment experience, coping, response and restriction movement of CLSU students
Date
2018
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Anna Mae A. Montoya and Hazel Grace U. Tejano
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The main aim of the current study is to look upon the street harassment experiences of male and female CLSU college students. This quantitative study analyzed the frequency of street harassment experience, coping response and level of restriction movement and explained the relationship of the three variables. The study used a questionnaire containing 3 indexes by Fairchild and Rudman (2007). The results of the study shows that the level of street harassment experience of majority of CLSU college students is very low in terms of frequency and on the comparison of male and females, it was found that females' street harassment experience is higher. The level of restriction movement of CLSU college students is high among females and neutral among males. Verbal is the most common form of street harassment experienced, the most experienced type of street harassment by females is catcalls, whistles or a stare while the most experienced type of street harassment by males is unpleasant, offensive sexual remarks, jokes or actions. Most used type of coping response by male and female students is passive coping response. Data were gathered by disseminating survey questionnaires to participants, analyzed and interpreted quantitatively using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).