Abstract
This study aims to determine college students’ levels of knowledge about sexual harassment and assault, and to identify the predictors of this level of knowledge. Participants have been selected using a multi-stage sampling method and consist of 7,302 college students from a state college in Turkey. The age of participants ranged from 17 years to 29 years with a mean age of 21.33 years (SD = 2.04). The Sexual Harassment and Assault Knowledge Test, the Survey of College Students’ Exposure to Sexual Harassment and Assault, and a socio-demographic form were used to obtain data from the sample. The two-steps cluster analysis revealed that 70.2 % of the all participants had moderate level of knowledge about sexual harassment and assault, while 13.6 % had a low level of knowledge and 16.2 % had high level of knowledge. The CHAID analysis indicated that sex was the main predictor of level of knowledge about sexual harassment and assault. Also, exposure to sexual harassment or assault, dating experience, and having gender-equality education were found as other predictor variables. Finally, classification accuracy of the CHAID model was found 79.5 % within the sample.
Highlights
During recent years, sexual assault on college campuses rose into the national spotlight and became a major topic of concern for the federal government, students, and universities alike
This study primarily focuses on the concept of sexual violence, as this term encompasses all actions commonly described by the terms sexual assault and rape that vary in usage and definition across institutions of higher education, the media, and within research settings
Since all incoming freshmen students beginning with the Class of 2017 were required to complete Haven, the lower percent of people who reported participating in the training suggests students may have forgotten about the training or that it did not have a lasting impact on them
Summary
Sexual assault on college campuses rose into the national spotlight and became a major topic of concern for the federal government, students, and universities alike. The Obama administration and the Office of Civil Rights are pushing colleges to improve their prevention efforts, policies, and handling of campus sexual assault cases, institutions of higher education do not appear to be devoting time to evaluating whether students are affected by these policies and changes (White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault 2014) Previous research in this area has focused on the effects of specific educational programs on participants’ knowledge and attitudes towards sexual assault, and does not provide a complete picture of students’ explicit knowledge of school policies or understanding of the application of these policies (Katz and Moore 2013; Koelsch et al 2012; Breitenbecher and Scarce 1999; Edwards 2009; Foubert and Marriott 1997: Anderson and Whiston 2005). Your participation in this survey is completely up to you
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