IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v18y2021i19p10375-d648612.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Street Sexual Harassment: Experiences and Attitudes among Young Spanish People

Author

Listed:
  • Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez

    (Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Ctra. Valldemossa, km. 7′5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

  • Carmen Delgado-Alvarez

    (Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, C/Compañía, 1-5, 37002 Salamanca, Spain)

  • Andrés Sánchez-Prada

    (Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, C/Compañía, 1-5, 37002 Salamanca, Spain)

  • Esperanza Bosch-Fiol

    (Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Ctra. Valldemossa, km. 7′5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

  • Virginia Ferreiro-Basurto

    (Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Ctra. Valldemossa, km. 7′5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

Abstract

Violence against women (VAW) is gender-based violence directed at women and girls on account of being female that can take on multiple forms and manifest in different contexts. Among the many possible forms of VAW, this article focuses on “piropos”, a type of stranger harassment situation. Specifically, the objectives of this study were two-fold: to analyze the usefulness of a tool to evaluate social attitudes towards this form of VAW and to analyze the influence of sociodemographic variables and prior victimization (whether as a witness or victim) on attitudes towards this type of violence among Spanish youth. An opportunity sample of 538 young Spanish people took part in this study. They filled out a sociodemographic data sheet, a victimization questionnaire designed ad hoc, and a questionnaire on attitudes towards “piropos”. The results obtained indicate that the questionnaire was adequate for use as a tool to evaluate social attitudes towards this type of VAW and suggest its applicability for future studies on attitudes towards “piropos” as a type of stranger harassment situation in a Spanish context. Moreover, the results on victimization not only corroborate the magnitude of street sexual harassment in Spain and a direct effect of gender on the perception of the violence experienced, they also reinforce the need to further investigate new aspects. Regarding attitudes towards “piropos”, the results obtained indicate that, in general, participants demonstrated negative attitudes or rejection, and these feelings were particularly strong among women.

Suggested Citation

  • Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez & Carmen Delgado-Alvarez & Andrés Sánchez-Prada & Esperanza Bosch-Fiol & Virginia Ferreiro-Basurto, 2021. "Street Sexual Harassment: Experiences and Attitudes among Young Spanish People," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(19), pages 1-19, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:19:p:10375-:d:648612
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/19/10375/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/19/10375/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Andrés Sánchez-Prada & Carmen Delgado-Alvarez & Esperanza Bosch-Fiol & Virginia Ferreiro-Basurto & Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez, 2020. "Psychosocial Implications of Supportive Attitudes towards Intimate Partner Violence against Women throughout the Lifecycle," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(17), pages 1-20, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Andrés Sánchez-Prada & Carmen Delgado-Alvarez & Esperanza Bosch-Fiol & Virginia Ferreiro-Basurto & Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez, 2022. "Personal Traits of the People Who Help: The Case of Bystanders to Violence against Women," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(20), pages 1-17, October.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      Corrections

      All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:19:p:10375-:d:648612. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

      If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

      If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

      For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

      Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

      IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.