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The first crucial step towards addressing sexual harassment lies in its perception. The current research aimed to explore whether the relation between gender roles and sexual harassment perception was affected by perspective-taking (on victim or on perpetrator) and the victim’s gender (male or female) among Chinese men. The findings were from an experimental design, which included 426 heterosexual male participants, aged 18 to 72 years-old (Mage = 26.77). Participants completed surveys that assessed their gender roles and perceptions of sexual harassment after reading a randomly assigned sexual harassment scenario. Men with higher scores on masculinity were less aware of sexual harassment, and men with higher scores on femininity were more aware of sexual harassment. Participants’ perception of sexual harassment was significantly stronger when took perspective on victim than their perception when took perspective on perpetrator. In addition, the victim’s gender moderated the relation among masculinity, perspective-taking and the perception of sexual harassment. The findings highlight the importance of victim’s gender for the perception of sexual harassment and suggest that improving gender equality awareness is very necessary for enhancing the perception of sexual harassment in China.
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Through the usage of wenjuanxin (www.wjx.cn), a Chinese online questionnaire platform, male participants were selected for the study. By posting the recruitment information of the participants on WeChat, Weibo, Douban and other social platforms, the participants were recruited to participate in the questionnaire survey. Prior to filling out the survey, participants were informed that the study aimed to examine gender-related attitudes, utilized an anonymous format, and solely gathered data for academic research purposes. Ethics approval was obtained from the Faculty of Education, University of Macau (SSHRE24-APP029-FED). All participants gave informed consent and received monetary (3~5CYN) compensation for participation. Research has demonstrated that sexual orientation can predict an individual’s perception of both opposite-sex and same-sex sexual harassment (DeSouza et al., 2007). As this study examined sexual harassment within heterosexual relationships, only participants who identified as heterosexual were included. The inclusion criteria for the participants were as follows: (1) male adults, at least 18 years old; (2) sexual orientation is heterosexuality; (3) consent to participate in the study; (4) answer the confirmatory questions correctly. A total of 498 data were initially received, excluding 40 sexual minorities and 32 questionnaires with incorrect answers to confirmatory questions, and 426 data were retained (the effective rate of the questionnaire was 85.5%). The age range of participants varied from 18 to 72 years, with an average age of 26.77 years (SD = 8.57). The participants’ median age was 26 years old. Participants were randomly distributed one version of the four scenarios when collecting data. The first step involved the participants providing answers to questions concerning their demographic information. After that, the participants were shown different sexual harassment scenarios and tasked with answering questions about confirmatory check and sexual harassment perception. Then measured gender roles of the participants.