Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
48th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Praha, Çek Cumhuriyeti, 3 - 06 Temmuz 2025, (Özet Bildiri)
Workplace sexism can be experienced in
various forms including sexualised experiences. Sexual Harassment (SH) includes
all kinds of verbal and non-verbal, undesired behaviors. Non-sexual sexism (SX)
includes all attitudes and behaviours that may be disadvantaged for women;
however, it excludes sexuality. This quasi-experimental study aims to
investigate whether women's experiences of SX and SH in the workplace affect
their psychological mood and their social relationships with their female
colleagues in different ways. Participants were all working women who were
either reminded about their experiences of SH (N=147) or about their
experiences of SX (N=135). Their depression, anxiety and anger level were
measured pre and after the manipulation They also answered questions regarding
social relationships with their female colleagues. The results show that there
is no statistical difference between these two types of sexism in terms of
depression, anxiety, anger and social relations. However, regardless of the type,
experiences with sexism was found to significantly increase women's levels of
depression, anxiety and anger. In addition, a significant positive correlation
was found between increased anger after experiences of sexism and feeling
distant from female colleagues at work. In other words, no matter which type of
sexism women are exposed to, as their anger levels increase, they distance
themselves from their female colleagues. However, it was also found that women
reported lower levels of depression and anxiety as the number of female
colleagues at work increased.
**This study is funded by Anadolu University Scientific Research Committee
(SBA20242616).
Keywords: sexual harassment, non-sexualised sexism, in group relationships,
anger, depression, anxiety