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Direct linkEwing, Eve L.; Khatri, Sanya M.; Irsheid, Sireen B.; Castleberry, Leah Y. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Research suggests that sexual harassment and assault are distressingly common occurrences in middle school settings. However, prevention efforts have largely focused on secondary and post-secondary settings. While research-based initiatives to discuss consent could be effective, currently there is a dearth of literature on…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Grade 7
Download full textHazeltine, Brian C.; Hernandez, David A. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2015
Bullying is a problem that has been studied in schools worldwide, but there is little research on bullying within Christian schools, a dearth which may stem from the assumption that Christian schools teach character traits that are inimical to bullying. Yet understanding the extent and nature of bullying in Christian schools may lead to a better…
Descriptors: Bullying, Christianity, Religious Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Connolly, Jennifer; Josephson, Wendy; Schnoll, Jessica; Simkins-Strong, Emily; Pepler, Debra; MacPherson, Alison; Weiser, Jessica; Moran, Michelle; Jiang, Depeng – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
Although youth-led programs (YLP) have been successful in many areas of public health, youth leadership is rarely used in the prevention of peer aggression. A YLP to reduce bullying, sexual harassment, and dating aggression was compared experimentally with the board-mandated usual practice (UP). Four middle schools in an urban Canadian school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prevention, Bullying, Aggression
American Association of University Women, 2011
Sexual harassment has long been an unfortunate part of the climate in middle and high schools in the United States. Often considered a kind of bullying, sexual harassment by definition involves sex and gender and therefore warrants separate attention. The legal definition of sexual harassment also differentiates it from bullying. Based on a…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Incidence, Prevention, Middle Schools
Holman, Margery J.; Johnson, Jay; Lucier, Mary-Kaye – Sport, Education and Society, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of girls and boys about the effects that body-based harassment would have on girls' eating habits and engagement in physical activity. Five scenarios were read to focus groups comprised of 12- to 14-year-old students in grades 7 and 8. Each scenario represented behaviours that fall…
Descriptors: Human Body, Eating Habits, Life Style, Females
Hill, Catherine; Kearl, Holly – American Association of University Women, 2011
Sexual harassment has long been an unfortunate part of the climate in middle and high schools in the United States. Often considered a kind of bullying, sexual harassment by definition involves sex and gender and therefore warrants separate attention. The legal definition of sexual harassment also differentiates it from bullying. Based on a…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Incidence, Prevention, Middle Schools
Smothers, Melissa Kraemer; Smothers, D. Brian – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2011
In this study, a nonprofit community mental health clinic developed a socioecological model of sexual abuse prevention that was implemented in a public school. The goal of the program was to promote and create community change within individuals and the school community by reducing tolerance of sexual violence and sexual harassment. Participants…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse, Prevention
Felix, Erika D.; McMahon, Susan D. – Journal of School Violence, 2007
Students experience many forms of victimization at school, yet few studies address more than one form of victimization. In this study, we explored the incidence of multiple forms of peer victimization, including direct verbal and physical, relational, and sexual harassment victimization among urban middle school students. We examined the overlap…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Incidence, Gender Differences, Victims of Crime
