Sexual Harassment, Sexual Harassment Climate, and the Well-Being of STEM Faculty Members

Autor/inn/en	Minnotte, Krista Lynn; Pedersen, Daphne E.
Titel	Sexual Harassment, Sexual Harassment Climate, and the Well-Being of STEM Faculty Members
Quelle	In: Innovative Higher Education, 48 (2023) 4, S.601-618 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Minnotte, Krista Lynn)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0742-5627
DOI	10.1007/s10755-023-09645-w
Schlagwörter	Sexual Harassment; Well Being; STEM Education; College Faculty; Teacher Burnout; Faculty Mobility; Psychological Patterns; Physical Health; Women Faculty + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexuelle Belästigung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; STEM; Fakultät; Burnout-syndrom; Burnout; Teacher; Teachers; Burnout-Syndrom; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Gesundheitszustand; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte
Abstract	Despite the documented negative outcomes accompanying sexual harassment, the experience of sexual harassment among STEM faculty members remains underexamined. In this paper, we explore how two sexual harassment variables--gender harassment and sexual harassment climate--are linked to four facets of faculty well-being: job burnout, turnover intentions, psychological distress, and self-rated physical health. Using data from STEM faculty at a mid-sized university located in the upper Midwest (N = 117 faculty members), we find gender harassment is associated with lower self-rated physical health and higher turnover intentions among women STEM faculty. In contrast, gender harassment was not significant in predicting well-being outcomes among men STEM faculty. Instead, the sexual harassment climate features more prominently in the experiences of STEM men faculty, with the perception that sexual harassment charges will be treated seriously (the sexual harassment climate) being negatively related to men's job burnout and psychological distress and positively related to men's self-rated physical health. Taken together, our findings extend the existing literature by documenting that outcomes for STEM men faculty are more strongly shaped by the perceived institutional climate surrounding sexual harassment, whereas women's outcomes are more intricately linked to experiencing gender harassment. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01