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Moderating effects of harasser status and target gender on the relationship between unwanted sexual attention and overall job satisfaction
Author(s) -
Clarke Heather M.,
Ford Dianne P.,
Sulsky Lorne M.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12408
Subject(s) - harassment , psychology , supervisor , social psychology , job satisfaction , interpersonal communication , perception , economic justice , management , political science , neuroscience , law , economics
Despite a vast body of literature evidencing the negative effects of workplace sexual harassment it remains unclear whether sexual harassment experienced by the target is worse when the harasser is a supervisor, rather than a coworker. With a scenario‐based experimental study we examined whether targets harassed by their supervisor would experience greater decreases in overall job satisfaction than those targeted by a coworker. Results suggested that harasser status moderated the effects of sexual harassment on overall job satisfaction but only for female targets. Further, the effect of supervisor harassment on job satisfaction was mediated by interpersonal justice perceptions.