Date of Award
2-8-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Sport Administration, MS
First Advisor
Claudia Benavides
Committee Members
Carlitta Moore; David Lavetter
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2021 M64
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify what characteristics and actions of a coach can be perceived as sexual harassment. There is a focus on female college athletes due to much of the existing literature focusing here. Elite female athletes are at the highest risk for sexual harassment and abuse from their coach. This study is building off a former study done by Fejgin and Hanegby in 2001 with application to American athletes. There will also be the addition of coaches surveyed which will allow the comparison of answers. It was found that all athletes and coaches’ perceptions are not all that different. Many of the actions seen as harassment by female athletes were also seen as this by the coaches surveyed. Future research should explore the possibilities of different dyads of victims and abuser, larger population sample and different divisions of athletics.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Moeller, Courtney Lynn, "Characteristics Of Sexual Harassment: Perceptions of Intercollegiate Coaches and Athletes" (2022). Student Theses and Dissertations. 257.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/257
