Spanish Adaptation of the Illinois Sexual Harassment Myth Acceptance
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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10481/86392Metadatos
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Expósito Jiménez, Francisca; Herrera Enríquez, Antonio Manuel; Valor Segura, Inmaculada; Herrera Enríquez, María Del Carmen; lozano, luismaEditorial
Cambridge University Press
Materia
Sexual harassment myths Gender violence Scale adaptation
Date
2014Referencia bibliográfica
Expósito, F., Herrera, A., Valor-Segura, I., Herrera, M. C., y Lozano, L. M. (2014). Spanish Adaptation of the Illinois Sexual Harassment Myth Acceptance. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 17,1-13.
Patrocinador
Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia for the R&D project ‘Sexist ideology and power inequality in the development and maintenance of Sexual Harassment’ (Ref. PSI2011–29720); Project of Excellence of the Junta de Andalucía ‘Psychosocial analysis of legitimacy and prejudice in the maintenance of asymmetrical social relationships’ (Ref. SEJ-6225); Grant from the FPU (AP2009–2940) Program of the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte given to the second author.Résumé
Sexual harassment is among the most serious forms of gender violence, and what all violent acts have in
common are the many myths associated with them. Three studies were conducted to adapt a Spanish version of the
Illinois Sexual Harassment Myth Acceptance (ISHMA) scale, which assesses myths about sexual harassment. The first
study aimed to, for the first time, present psychometric data on the Spanish version of the ISHMA. The participants were
339 college students. After adapting the items and measuring their content validity, we examined the test’s dimensional
structure, statistically analyzed the items, and determined the instrument’s reliability (α = .91 for the total scale and
between .77 and .84 for the different dimensions). Study 2 involved 326 adult participants from the general population
and its objective was to evaluate the scale’s dimensional structure through confirmatory factor analysis (χ2
143 = 244.860,
p < .001; GFI = .952; CFI = .958; RMSEA = .034 [.026 – .041]). The third study was conducted in order to measure convergent
validity in both students and adults from the general population. Differences by gender were found in all dimensions
being the females’ means higher than males (Cohen´s d between .38 and .62). Our findings suggest the Spanish
version of the ISHMA is a useful instrument to study myths about sexual harassment.