Peer sexual harassment among adolescents is a widespread problem worldwide, associated with several adverse outcomes. Although retrospective reports indicate that people's first experience of peer sexual harassment occurs before puberty, research in younger ages is still scarce and measures of peer sexual harassment developed for children are lacking. This study explores the possibility of measuring peer sexual harassment in late childhood by evaluating a new scale of developmentally informed items, the Peer Sexual Harassment Scale—Child (PSH-C), designed to capture peer sexual harassment (i.e., victimization, perpetration, and witnessing) in late childhood (ages 10–12 years) in the school context. Self-report surveys were distributed to 1007 fourth-grade students in Sweden (M age = 10.0 years, SD = .3, n = 516 girls). The PSH-C showed good psychometric properties, supporting the scale's ability to capture peer sexual harassment in late childhood. Exploratory structural equation analyses suggested a two-factor structure which was confirmed by confirmatory factor analyses: 1) direct verbal sexual aggression, and 2) direct physical sexual harassment, verbal comments and jokes, and visual sexual harassment. The division of the structure contradicts previous studies of adolescents, possibly indicating a difference in the peer sexual harassment construct in relation to development and age.

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PSH-C：儿童同伴性骚扰的衡量标准

青少年中的同伴性骚扰是世界范围内的一个普遍问题，与多种不良后果相关。尽管回顾性报告表明，人们第一次经历同侪性骚扰发生在青春期之前，但针对较小年龄段的研究仍然很少，而且缺乏针对儿童制定的同侪性骚扰衡量标准。本研究通过评估一种新的发育信息量表——儿童同伴性骚扰量表（PSH-C），探讨了衡量儿童晚期同伴性骚扰的可能性，该量表旨在捕捉同伴性骚扰（即受害、实施和性骚扰）。见证）在童年晚期（10-12岁）在学校环境中。向瑞典 1007 名四年级学生分发了自我报告调查（M年龄 = 10.0 岁，SD = 0.3，n = 516 名女生）。PSH-C 显示出良好的心理测量特性，支持该量表捕捉童年晚期同伴性骚扰的能力。探索性结构方程分析提出了一个双因素结构，并通过验证性因素分析得到证实：1）直接言语性侵犯，2）直接身体性骚扰、口头评论和笑话以及视觉性骚扰。这种结构的划分与之前对青少年的研究相矛盾，可能表明同龄性骚扰结构在发展和年龄方面存在差异。