Test Your Perception of Sexual Harassment
Read the following statements and decide if you consider each behavior harmless, uncertain, or severe sexual harassment. Check your perceptions in the key below.
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1. Your supervisor touches or pats your private parts. harmless uncertain severe 2. Your supervisor requests sexual favors in exchange for rewards and perks. harmless uncertain severe 3. Your supervisor repeatedly asks you out on a date, even after you make it clear you’re not interested. harmless uncertain severe 4. Your supervisor makes sexually suggestive remarks or gestures to you. harmless uncertain severe 5. Your supervisor shows you sexually suggestive visuals. harmless uncertain severe 6. Your supervisor tells you sexually oriented jokes. harmless uncertain severe |
7. Your supervisor tells sexually explicit jokes in your proximity. harmless uncertain severe 8. Your supervisor asks you to run a personal errand. harmless uncertain severe 9. Your supervisor touches or pats nonsexual parts of your body. harmless uncertain severe 10. Your supervisor asks you for a date. harmless uncertain severe 11. Your supervisor pays for your meal. harmless uncertain severe 12. Your supervisor helps you with physically demanding work. harmless uncertain severe |
Note: Items in this Self-Quiz are adapted from Blakely, Blakely, and Moorman (1995).