Am I Being Sexually Harassed Quiz
How the Scales are Structured
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- My response was accepted without pressure or consequences.
- The person reacted awkwardly or coldly once, without continuing the pressure.
- The person repeatedly pressured, excluded, mocked, or undermined me after my refusal.
- The person threatened punishment, exposure, harm, or serious consequences because I refused.
- I have not experienced an attempt at sexual contact without my agreement.
- Someone moved toward sexual contact without checking, but stopped immediately when I resisted or declined.
- Someone persisted or attempted contact in a way that required me to actively escape, push away, or seek help.
- Someone forced sexual contact, restrained me, injured me, or continued when I could not freely agree.
- I have not been followed or monitored in this situation.
- Someone lingered or appeared to watch me once in a way that made me uneasy.
- Someone repeatedly followed me, waited for me, tracked my whereabouts, or appeared at places after I asked for distance.
- Someone threatened me, tried to enter a private space, or used following or monitoring to make me fear immediate harm.
Am I Being Sexually Harassed Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
People facing an uncertain or recurring experience can use the Am I Being Sexually Harassed Quiz to organize what happened. For those asking whether they have been sexually harassed, this questionnaire is a Have I Been Sexually Harassed Quiz covering experiences across work, education, housing, social, or digital settings. The questionnaire examines possible sexual harassment and indicates which displayed dimensions raise concern.
What This Assessment Explores
The questions address refusal, unwanted sexual attention, contact, exposure, messages, rumors, monitoring, group pressure, silence, and threats involving work, grades, housing, reputation, or access. They include isolated, repeated, escalating, and power-linked conduct.
The result from this sexual harassment questionnaire separates the three displayed dimensions and indicates where your answers raise concern:
- Coercion, Control, and Retaliation (0-15) reflects sexual pressure tied to authority, opportunities, reputation, belonging, or punishment; bands: No listed indicator selected (0), Coercive concern present (1-2), Prompt support (3-15).
- Physical Force and Immediate Safety (0-15) reflects unwanted touching, confinement, following, forced contact, threats, and escalation; bands: No indicators selected (0), Safety concern present (1-2), Immediate attention (3-15).
- Unwanted Sexual Boundary Violations (0-15) reflects unwanted verbal, visual, digital, or witnessed sexual conduct; bands: No indicators endorsed (0), Boundary concern present (1-2), Prompt support (3-15).
Methodology and Evidence Base
Each item offers four ordered responses, from no reported experience through isolated or uncomfortable conduct to repeated, coercive, or dangerous behavior. Responses are grouped into the displayed scales, but no per-answer point rule is documented; the ranges do not reveal weighting.
Conceptually, the structure is closest to the Sexual Experiences Questionnaire, which treats sexual harassment as multidimensional. Fitzgerald and colleagues identify unwanted sexual attention, sexual coercion, and gender harassment in organizational settings. Testa and colleagues provide relevant validity evidence for self-reported unwanted sexual aggression through the Sexual Experiences Survey. The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the multidimensional approach of the Sexual Experiences Questionnaire and with experiences examined by the Sexual Experiences Survey, but it is not presented as a standardized adaptation of either instrument.
Because answers depend on memory, self-awareness, disclosure, and current context, the unvalidated bands are not diagnostic, legal, clinical, or severity cutoffs. This sexual harassment test can organize reflection, but the total must be interpreted alongside event details, power dynamics, and immediate safety; a concerning response should not be dismissed because of the overall score.
- Fitzgerald, Louise F., Michele J. Gelfand, and Fritz Drasgow. (1995). Measuring Sexual Harassment: Theoretical and Psychometric Advances. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 17(4), 425-445. 10.1207/s15324834basp1704_2
- Fitzgerald, Louise F., Sandra L. Shullman, Nancy Bailey, Margaret Richards, Janice Swecker, Yael Gold, Mimi Ormerod, and Lauren Weitzman. (1988). The Incidence and Dimensions of Sexual Harassment in Academia and the Workplace. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 32(2), 152-175. 10.1016/0001-8791(88)90012-7
- Testa, Maria, Carol VanZile-Tamsen, Jennifer A. Livingston, and Mary P. Koss. (2004). Assessing Women's Experiences of Sexual Aggression Using the Sexual Experiences Survey: Evidence for Validity and Implications for Research. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28(3), 256-265. 10.1111/j.1471-6402.2004.00143.x
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