Research: Notes

By Debra Viadero

More than half the high school victims of sexual harassment admit having harassed a schoolmate themselves at some point in their school careers.

That's what researchers Valerie E. Lee, Robert G. Croninger, Eleanor Linn, and Xianglei Chen found when they re-analyzed data from a 1993 survey of 1,203 public school students in grades 8 to 11. For their study, published in the Summer 1996 American Educational Research Journal, the four researchers used data from a widely publicized American Association of University Women survey and weeded out responses from students whose experiences with sexual harassment did not occur in a school setting.

Like other researchers before...