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| Published: March 25, 2016
A Correlational Study of Experienced Sexual Harassment, Anxiety and Depression among Working Unmarried Women
M.A, Department of Psychology, Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pune, India
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Professor, Department of Psychology, Modern College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Pune, India
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DIP: 18.01.038/20160302
DOI: 10.25215/0302.038
ABSTRACT
A present study investigated the correlation between experienced sexual harassment and anxiety, depression among working unmarried women. A purposive sample of 100 working unmarried women (25 to 35 years) was selected. Sample was collected from Mumbai. Sample involves unmarried women working in private sectors with same occupational background. The Sexual harassment experiences questionnaire, Beck depression inventory II, IPAT anxiety scale along with the personal data sheet were administered on the sample. The obtained score does not follow the normal distribution curve hence for correlation Spearman rho correlation method was used. Spearman non parametric test used to find out correlation between all variables. Result shows that there is positive correlation between experienced sexual harassment and depression. Also result shows that there is no correlation between experienced sexual harassment and anxiety.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016 I R Vibhuti, S Sakatkar
Received: December 26, 2015; Revision Received: January 18, 2016; Accepted: March 25, 2016
Radha Vibhuti @ radha.vibhuti@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.038/20160302
10.25215/0302.038
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 2, January-March, 2016