Help-Seeking Patterns Among Students Experiencing Sexual Harassment: A Latent Class Analysis.
Sexual harassment continues to be a pervasive problem in institutes of higher education. Despite this, there are significant gaps in research and our understanding related to students' help-seeking associated with sexual harassment. Understanding students' help-seeking patterns is critical in improv...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence Vol. 39; no. 15/16; pp. 3543 - 3566 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2024
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