Coping in context: Sociocultural determinants of responses to sexual harassment

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 394-405

  Arzu Wasti, S ^a   Cortina, Lilia M ^b  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCUPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036688686     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.2.394     Document Type: Review

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