Simple and joint effects of gender and self-esteem on responses to same-sex sexual harassment

Sex Roles

Volumn 50, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 823-833

  Goldberg, Caren ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Responses to sexual harassment; Same sex sexual harassment; Self esteem and sexual harassment; Sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843109921     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:sers.0000029100.90903.11     Document Type: Article

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