Sexual harassment in public spaces towards Peruvian adolescents
<p><strong>Background</strong>: Public spaces should be safe places for the free movement of people, especially for women, and even more so if they are minors. In the case of adolescent girls, they are often victims of sexual harassment in the streets or other places, a situation t...
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| author | Cinthia Rosales Márquez Andrea Ángela Medina Valverde Ericson Felix Castillo Saavedra Cecilia Elizabeth Reyes Alfaro Raúl Fernando Cruzado Ubillús |
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| description | <p><strong>Background</strong>: Public spaces should be safe places for the free movement of people, especially for women, and even more so if they are minors. In the case of adolescent girls, they are often victims of sexual harassment in the streets or other places, a situation that could significantly affect their comprehensive development.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to characterize sexual harassment in public spaces towards Peruvian adolescents.<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: comparative descriptive study, which included 372 schoolchildren from two educational institutions (one public and one private) in the province of Santa (Peru). The street sexual harassment questionnaire, a 13-item instrument, was applied. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the levels of sexual harassment; while the inferential statistics identified a statistical difference in bullying with respect to both educational institutions. Based on the normality of the data, the Student´s t-test was used.<br /><strong>Results</strong>: sexual harassment was at a medium level in both schools, 52.4 % in the private one and 45% in the public one. A significant statistical difference was evidenced between the participants of one and another educational center, with respect to the behavioral dimensions of social interaction, verbal component and physical component; as well as sexual harassment in general.<br /><strong>Conclusion</strong>: Sexual harassment in public spaces was, in most cases, medium level. Social interaction behaviors, as well as the verbal component, were the most prevalent dimensions of bullying towards adolescents from both educational institutions in the province of Santa (Peru).</p> |
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| spelling | doaj-art-876771cbf52340d3adea10bfc32a98e02025-01-30T21:28:58ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2022-03-012022923002121Sexual harassment in public spaces towards Peruvian adolescentsCinthia Rosales Márquez0Andrea Ángela Medina Valverde1Ericson Felix Castillo Saavedra2Cecilia Elizabeth Reyes Alfaro3Raúl Fernando Cruzado Ubillús4Universidad Cesar Vallejo. TrujilloUniversidad Cesar Vallejo. TrujilloUniversidad Nacional de Trujillo. TrujilloUniversidad Cesar Vallejo. TrujilloUniversidad Nacional de Trujillo<p><strong>Background</strong>: Public spaces should be safe places for the free movement of people, especially for women, and even more so if they are minors. In the case of adolescent girls, they are often victims of sexual harassment in the streets or other places, a situation that could significantly affect their comprehensive development.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to characterize sexual harassment in public spaces towards Peruvian adolescents.<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: comparative descriptive study, which included 372 schoolchildren from two educational institutions (one public and one private) in the province of Santa (Peru). The street sexual harassment questionnaire, a 13-item instrument, was applied. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the levels of sexual harassment; while the inferential statistics identified a statistical difference in bullying with respect to both educational institutions. Based on the normality of the data, the Student´s t-test was used.<br /><strong>Results</strong>: sexual harassment was at a medium level in both schools, 52.4 % in the private one and 45% in the public one. A significant statistical difference was evidenced between the participants of one and another educational center, with respect to the behavioral dimensions of social interaction, verbal component and physical component; as well as sexual harassment in general.<br /><strong>Conclusion</strong>: Sexual harassment in public spaces was, in most cases, medium level. Social interaction behaviors, as well as the verbal component, were the most prevalent dimensions of bullying towards adolescents from both educational institutions in the province of Santa (Peru).</p>http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/5243acoso sexualtrastornos fóbicosconducta del adolescente |
| spellingShingle | Cinthia Rosales Márquez Andrea Ángela Medina Valverde Ericson Felix Castillo Saavedra Cecilia Elizabeth Reyes Alfaro Raúl Fernando Cruzado Ubillús Sexual harassment in public spaces towards Peruvian adolescents Medisur acoso sexual trastornos fóbicos conducta del adolescente |
| title | Sexual harassment in public spaces towards Peruvian adolescents |
| title_full | Sexual harassment in public spaces towards Peruvian adolescents |
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| title_short | Sexual harassment in public spaces towards Peruvian adolescents |
| title_sort | sexual harassment in public spaces towards peruvian adolescents |
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