Measuring Sexual Harassment in the Military: The Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ—DoD)

• DOI: 10.1207/s15327876mp1103_3
• Publication Date: 2006-01-25T14:04:34Z
• Authors: Louise F. Fitzgerald; Vicki J. Magley; Fritz Drasgow; Craig R. Waldo
• Keywords: Harassment

The harassment of women in the military is receiving increased attention from both policymakers and popular media. Stimulated originally by Navy's Tailhook episode 1991, more recently revelations widespread sexual female Army recruits, there appears to be a growing consensus that personnel problem with profound consequences for individuals armed services generally. At same time, are few reliable estimates actual nature, prevalence, severity this problem; those do exist marked variety shortcomings.This article attempts address issue. We begin describing development measurement characteristics version Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ—DoD; Fitzgerald, Gelfand, & Drasgow, 1995 L. F., M. J., F. (1995). Measuring harassment: Theoretical psychometric advances. Basic Applied Psychology, 17, 425–445.[Taylor Francis Online], [Web Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Fitzgerald et al., 1988 Shullman, S., Bailey, N., Richards, M., Swecker, Gold, A., Ormerod, A. Weitzman, (1988). incidence dimensions academia workplace. Journal Vocational Behavior, 32, 152–175.[Crossref], Scholar]), which was administered than 28,000 as part Department Defense (DoD) study gender issues services. Following analysis structure instrument, we examine rates effects gender, race/ethnicity, service, rank. then discuss options scoring SEQ—DoD conclude discussion difficult question, “Who should counted sexually harassed?”