Integrating Strategies for Bullying, Sexual Harassment, and Dating Violence Prevention: Th e Expect Respect Elementary School Project

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents report higher rates of dating violence victimization compared with their heterosexual and cisgender peers. Research on dating violence often neglects diversity in sexual and gender identities and is limited to experiences in relationships. Further, given that dating violence and alcohol use are comorbid, research on experiences of dating violence could provide insights into alcohol use disparities among SGM adolescents. We aimed to map patterns of relationship experiences, sexual and physical dating violence, and sexual and physical assault and explored differences in these experiences among SGM adolescents. Further, we examined how these patterns explained alcohol use. We used a U.S. non-probability national web-based survey administered to 13–17-year-old SGM adolescents ( N = 12,534). Using latent class analyses, four patterns were identified: low relationship experience, dating violence and harassment and assault (72.0%), intermediate dating experiences, sexual harassment, and assault and low levels of dating violence (13.1%), high dating experiences, dating violence, and sexual assault (8.6%), and high dating experiences, dating violence, and sexual harassment and assault (6.3%). Compared to lesbian and gay adolescents, bisexual adolescents reported more experiences with dating, dating violence, and sexual assault, whereas heterosexual adolescents reported fewer experiences with dating, dating violence, and sexual harassment and assault. Compared to cisgender boys, cisgender girls, transgender boys, and non-binary/assigned male at birth adolescents were more likely to experience dating violence inside and outside of relationship contexts. Experiences of dating, dating violence, and sexual harassment and assault were associated with both drinking frequency and heavy episodic drinking. Together, the findings emphasize the relevance of relationship experiences when studying dating violence and how dating violence and sexual harassment and assault might explain disparities in alcohol use.

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Shared Risk Factors for the Perpetration of Physical Dating Violence, Bullying, and Sexual Harassment Among Adolescents Exposed to Domestic Violence

Journal of Youth and Adolescence ◽

10.1007/s10964-015-0404-z ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 45 (4) ◽

pp. 672-686 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Vangie A. Foshee ◽

H. Luz McNaughton Reyes ◽

May S. Chen ◽

Susan T. Ennett ◽

Kathleen C. Basile ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Domestic Violence ◽

Sexual Harassment ◽

Dating Violence ◽

Physical Dating Violence ◽

Shared Risk

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Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Sexual Harassment Victimization Among Girls on an Indian Reservation: An Examination of Rates and Risk and Protective Factors

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/10778012211012091 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122110120

Author(s):

Katie M. Edwards ◽

Laura Siller ◽

Damon Leader Charge ◽

Simone Bordeaux ◽

Leon Leader Charge

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Native American ◽

Sexual Assault ◽

Sexual Harassment ◽

Dating Violence ◽

Regression Analyses ◽

Indian Reservation ◽

Middle School Girls ◽

High School Girls ◽

School Girls

We documented the scope and correlates of past 6-month victimization among middle and high school girls on an Indian Reservation. Participants were 102 Native American girls in Grades 6-12. Rates of all forms of past 6-month victimization were higher for high school girls compared with middle school girls. In regression analyses, binge drinking related to higher rates of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Furthermore, connection to culture related to lower rates of sexual harassment, and efficacy to resist a sexual assault was related to lower rates of sexual assault and sexual harassment.

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The Effects of Gender Violence/Harassment Prevention Programming in Middle Schools: A Randomized Experimental Evaluation

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/0886-6708.25.2.202 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 202-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 42

Author(s):

Bruce Taylor ◽

Nan Stein ◽

Frances Burden

Keyword(s):

Sexual Harassment ◽

Dating Violence ◽

Personal Space ◽

Gender Violence ◽

Control Group ◽

Treatment Control ◽

Prevention Programming ◽

Violence Victimization ◽

Improved Outcomes ◽

Law And Justice

In this experiment, 123 sixth and seventh grade classrooms from Cleveland area schools were randomly assigned to one of two five-session curricula addressing gender violence/sexual harassment (GV/SH) or to a no-treatment control. Three-student surveys were administered. Students in the law and justice curricula, compared to the control group, had significantly improved outcomes in awareness of their abusive behaviors, attitudes toward GV/SH and personal space, and knowledge. Students in the interaction curricula experienced lower rates of victimization, increased awareness of abusive behaviors, and improved attitudes toward personal space. Neither curricula affected perpetration or victimization of sexual harassment. While the intervention appeared to reduce peer violence victimization and perpetration, a conflicting finding emerged—the intervention may have increased dating violence perpetration (or at least the reporting of it) but not dating violence victimization.

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