Sexual harassment is often
encountered by adolescents on social networking sites (SNS). One option to cope
with a situation of harassment on SNS is to alarm the provider by reporting the
transgressive content. It is yet unclear what the determinants of reporting a
sexual harassment situation on SNS are, as well as the subsequent actions to
these reports from the part of the SNS provider.
In this article, we seek to
address these gaps, and in particular examine whether control-by-the-self over
the situation and negative emotions play a role in the reporting of sexual
harassment on SNS. Findings indicate that a low situational control-by-the-self,
indirectly (namely through a higher experience of negative emotions such as
anger and shame) increases the reporting of sexual harassment by the victim.
Public visibility of the incident and the impossibility to remove the content
reduce the situational control-by-the-self.
Results further suggest that SNS
providers often ignore reported situations of sexual harassment. The study
concludes with suggestions for responses to reported harassment on SNS, which
should be directed toward increasing behavioral control and thereby alleviating
negative emotions.
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By:
- 1Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp , Antwerp, Belgium .
- Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2016 Jan;19(1):16-22. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2015.0168.
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