ABSTRACT

While copious research considers the health outcomes of sexual harassment experiences and investigates how individuals respond to sexual harassment, it has not investigated the concomitant effects of sexual harassment experiences and responses on their wellbeing. Further, no research has applied the biopsychosocial (BPS) framework to consider how sexual harassment impacts wellbeing. Hence, we present a framework to guide research examining the concomitant effects of experiences with and responses to sexual harassment on wellbeing. By viewing sexual harassment as a stressor, we integrate literature related to sexual harassment appraisals and responses, and expand existing sexual harassment literature to include the BPS framework, thereby advancing the theoretical foundation of the wellbeing effects of sexual harassment. The resulting theoretically integrative model provides a means of categorising individuals’ experiences with sexual harassment by considering the concomitant effects of the individual’s appraisal and response choice on wellbeing as well as the recursive effects that response choice and wellbeing have on one another.

摘要

虽然大量研究考虑了性骚扰经历对健康的影响，并调查了个人对性骚扰的反应，但尚未调查性骚扰经历和反应对其福祉的伴随影响。此外，还没有研究应用生物心理社会（BPS）框架来考虑性骚扰如何影响福祉。因此，我们提出了一个框架来指导研究性骚扰经历和应对措施对福祉的伴随影响。通过将性骚扰视为一种压力源，我们整合了与性骚扰评估和应对相关的文献，并扩展了现有的性骚扰文献以纳入 BPS 框架，从而推进了性骚扰的福祉影响的理论基础。