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  1. Sexual harassment and abuse in sport

    A study conducted by Brackenridge et al. (2002) [39] identified a prevalence rate of 2-49% of sexual abuse in sport. A retrospective survey of elite Australian athletes identified a sexual abuse ...

  2. Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: The research context

    Words: 6,561 1 Editorial Sexual harassment and abuse in sport - The research context This special issue of the Journal of Sexual Aggression draws on the contributions to a Symposium on 'Sexual Harassment in Sport - Challenges for Sport Psychology in the New Millennium', held at the Xth Congress of the International Society for Sport ...

  3. Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: The research context

    The symposium was intended to move forward the international research agenda on sexual harassment and abuse in sport and, in particular, to examine professional practice issues for sport psychologists. It was clear from the attendance of over 60 delegates at that symposium that international interest in this subject is growing.

  4. Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: The research context

    Abstract This publication draws on the contributions to a Symposium on 'Sexual Harassment in Sport - Challenges for Sport Psychology in the New Millennium', held at the Xth Congress of the International Society for Sport Psychology, Skiathos, Greece from May 28th to June 2nd 2001. The symposium was intended to move forward the international research agenda on sexual harassment and abuse in ...

  5. Sexual Harassment and Abuse among Young Elite Athletes, Recreational

    Sexual harassment (SH) and sexual abuse (SA), also referred to as sexual violence, sexual harm, or sexual harassment and abuse (SHA), violate personal rights and may have severe and long-term physical, psychological, social, and performance-related consequences ().Despite no universal definition (1,2), there is a general agreement that SHA is based on a subjective experience of a situation as ...

  6. Sexual Violence in Sport: Expanding Awareness and Knowledge ...

    Additional efforts of the IOC further emphasize the safeguarding of athletes from harassment and abuse in sport . According to the 2016 IOC Consensus Statement on Harassment and Abuse in Sport , harassment and abuse occur in a sports culture where three factors align: There is a perpetrator with high inclination or motivation to harass/abuse;

  7. Gender, Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport

    Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: The research context. Journal of Sexual Aggression 8:3-15. Article Google Scholar Brackenridge, Celia H., Daz Bishopp, Sybille Moussalli and James Tapp. 2008. The characteristics of sexual abuse in sport: A multidimentional scaling analysis of events described in media reports.

  8. Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport: Implications for Sport

    Abstract. Research over the past 20 years has shown that sexual harassment and abuse do occur in sport, and that these may take many different forms. In the beginning of this chapter, these are defined and discussed. Thereafter, an overview of what we know about the prevalence, the forms, the impact, the risk factors, and the perpetrators of ...

  9. Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport

    Abstract. There is a powerful tension between two ideas in sport: successful (winning) performance and athlete welfare. Achievement is important in sport and successful performances are the hallmarks of any individual's feelings of well-being and accomplishment. Download to read the full chapter text.

  10. (PDF) Research on Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport

    majority of this research outside sport has been conducted on intra-familial abuse, includ-. ing physical, sexual, emotional, and neglect, since this is the site of highest incidence. (Fisher in ...

  11. Assessing the sociology of sport: On sexual harassment research and

    Abstract. On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, a key foundational scholar on gender and sport, Kari Fasting, assesses sociological inquiry about sexual harassment in sport and its relation to the development of policy. The trajectory of this research on gender, sexual harassment and abuse (GSHA) in sport lies in feminist politics and ...

  12. Lifetime Prevalence of Verbal, Physical, and Sexual Abuses in Young

    Further research and surveys are needed to better characterize the sexual abuses against boys and understand if this finding is specific to this age group, and the sport context. In our study, a group consisting of friends, athletes, and partners represented 58% of the perpetrators of abuse in athletics whereas coaches and trainers represented 25%.

  13. Perceptions of Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Study in the

    The goal of the current study was to explore perceptions of sexual abuse in the sports community in the Portuguese context, considering the current Portuguese National Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2021-2024) and the recent launch of the country-specific roadmap for effective child safeguarding sport policies.

  14. Sexual abuse in sport: a model to prevent and protect athletes

    Several studies clearly show that sexual abuse exists in sport. Currently, very few studies have examined the prevention and management of this problem in sports organisations. This article explores the measures used to prevent sexual abuse in sports organisations as well as the perceptions of the sports actors affected by these measures ...

  15. Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: the role of the team doctor

    Sexual harassment and abuse occur in all sports and at all levels with an increased risk at the elite level. The physical and psychological consequences of sexual harassment and abuse are significant for the athlete, their team and for the health and integrity of sport in general. The sports medicine health professional has an integral role to play in the prevention of sexual harassment and ...

  16. PDF Research on Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport

    tional abuse resembles or differs from abuse in the family context. Research on sexual harassment was first undertaken in the workplace and in the educa-tional system where it seems to be very widespread. According to Fitzgerald (1993), dif-ferent surveys indicate that as many as half of all women in the United States will be sub-

  17. Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: the role of the team doctor

    Sexual harassment and abuse occur in all sports and at all levels with an increased risk at the elite level. The physical and psychological consequences of sexual harassment and abuse are significant for the athlete, their team and for the health and integrity of sport in general. The sports medicine health professional has an integral role to ...

  18. The dome of silence : sexual harassment and abuse in sport

    This book frames the issue of sexual harassment and abuse in sports within the context of existing research on sexual violence and within the ethic of care, a direction the authors believe sport organizations should adopt. This book investigates sexual violence in sport and examines its underlying values. This is carried out in the context of contemporary experiences of a number of athletes.

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  20. Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: The NOC*NSF helpline

    Following a high-profile case of child sexual abuse in sport in 1996, ... Fasting K (2002) Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: The research context. Journal of Sexual Aggression 8: 3-15. Crossref. Google Scholar. ... Moget P, Weber M, Schipper-van, Veldhoven N (2012) Sexual harassment and abuse in Dutch sports: A short review of early ...

  21. Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport

    Sport has long held a special place in the affections of western industrial societies. This status has protected sport from critical scrutiny and meant that social inequalities and other problems, such as sexual harassment and abuse, have all-too-often been ignored or tacitly condoned. Further, general research on institutional sex offending has been much slower to develop than individual ...

  22. PDF [Version 17.1.02] Editorial Sexual harassment and abuse in sport

    Sexual harassment and abuse in sport - The research context This special issue of the Journal of Sexual Aggression draws on the contributions to a Symposium on 'Sexual Harassment in Sport - Challenges for Sport Psychology in the New Millennium', held at the Xth Congress of the International Society for Sport

  23. (PDF) Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sports: In the Context of Turkey

    The results showed the presence of spread cases of "Harassment and Abuse in Sport" and the presence of statistically significant differences for some types of "Harassment and Abuse in Sport ...

  24. The grooming process in sport: Case studies of sexual harassment and abuse

    The grooming process in sport: Case studies of sexual harassment and abuse. Drawing on interviews with two elite female athletes from different sports, one from a study in Norway and the other from a study in England, this article explores the process of 'grooming' in the context of sport. Both athletes experienced grooming for sex by their ...

  25. Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace

    The first type of claim was initially described as "quid pro quo" harassment in the context of sexual harassment. [121] In early sexual harassment cases, quid pro quo described a claim in which a supervisor carried out an adverse change to an employee's compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the employee ...

  26. UB geology student selected for Department of Energy program

    Director of the Center for the Advancement of Sport. Expertise: sports law, including student-athletes' name, image and likeness (NIL), antitrust laws, collective bargaining, discipline of athletes, drug testing, NCAA compliance and Title IX; diversity in sport. Phone: 716-645-2071. Email: [email protected]