Testing the effectiveness of interactive training on sexual harassment and assault in field science.

ABSTRACT: Fieldwork is a critical tool for scientific research, particularly in applied disciplines. Yet fieldwork is often unsafe, especially for members of historically marginalized groups and people whose presence in scientific spaces threatens traditional hierarchies of power, authority, and legitimacy. Research is needed to identify interventions that prevent sexual harassment and assault from occurring in the first place. We conducted a quasi-experiment assessing the impacts of a 90-min interactive training on field-based staff in a United States state government agency. We hypothesized that the knowledge-based interventions, social modeling, and mastery experiences included in the training would increase participants' sexual harassment and assault prevention knowledge, self-efficacy, behaviou

SUBMITTER: Cronin MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10774269 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature