Understanding sexual harassment experience among undergraduate students’ in higher education institution in Malaysia / Siti Rapidah Omar Ali ... [et al.]

Omar Ali, Siti Rapidah and Mohd Said, Nur Shafini and Mat, Khalid Amin and Mat Zali, Masliza and Aziz, Nurulnadwan (2017) Understanding sexual harassment experience among undergraduate students’ in higher education institution in Malaysia / Siti Rapidah Omar Ali ... [et al.]. [Research Reports] (Unpublished)

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This study is conducted to gain an understanding of the issue of sexual harassment in the academic setting. Specifically, the objectives of this study are to examine the awareness of sexual harassment experienced among students, identify the effects of sexual harassment and the risk factor contributed to the act. A modified self-administered questionnaires designed by the DEOC Task Force on Discrimination and Sexual Harassment, USA was used as the main data collection instrument in this study. The questionnaires were distributed to Bachelor Degree and Diploma students from all faculties in Universiti Teknologi MARA Terengganu (Dungun, Bukit Besi and Kuala Terengganu campus). This study applied stratified random sampling. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean, frequency and percentage. It is expected through the findings obtain from this study, the need for having proper policy or sexual harassment safety guidelines for students, lecturers and other academic staffs could be identified in order to protect themselves from the incident anytime and anywhere.

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Item Type: Research Reports
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Omar Ali, Siti Rapidah
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Mohd Said, Nur Shafini
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Mat, Khalid Amin
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Mat Zali, Masliza
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Aziz, Nurulnadwan
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Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > Personnel management. Employment management
H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > Personnel management. Employment management > Sexual activity. Sex in the workplace. Including prevention of sexual harassment
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > Criminology > Crimes and offenses > Crimes against the person > Sex crimes
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu > Dungun Campus > Faculty of Business and Management
Keywords: Sexual Harassment ; Higher Education Institution ; Awareness
Date: December 2017
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/49697
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