A Test of a Social Learning Model for Explaining College Youths’ Online and Offline Sexual Harassment (2020)

이성식 ( Seong-sik Lee ) , 전신현 ( Shinhyun Jun ) , 정소희 ( So-hee Jung )

– 발행년도 : 2020

– 간행물 : 한국범죄학, 14권 2호

– 페이지 : pp.5-23 ( 총 19 페이지 )

ABSTRACT

This study tests a model to explain college youths’ sexual harassment behavior. In constructing a model for sexual harassment, it includes contact to pornography, patriarchy family environment, and low self-control as independent variables. This study investigates its effect to both online and offline sexual harassment when considering a mediating effect of social learning variables such as peer association and attitude toward sexual harassment. Analyzing 590 college students in Seoul, this study finds that college youths’ contact to pornography has a direct significant effect on both online and offline sexual harassment and it has also an indirect effect on sexual harassment through social learning variables. However, results show that their learning process are different between online and offline sexual harassment. In addition, it is found that the effect of patriarchy family environment is also significant in both online and offline sexual harassment. The effect of patriarchy family environment is mediated by differential association with peers in offline sexual harassment, while its effect is mediated by attitude toward harassment in online case. Result shows that low self-control is not significant. Their implications of results are discussed.