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    Sexual harassment and psycho-social problems among rural school going adolescent girls
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Asgola, Sugandha; Sukhminder Kaur
    The present study was undertaken on a sample comprising of 200 respondents in the age range of 16 to 18 years in one block of Ludhiana district. A Personal Information Sheet was used to record data about the demographic profile of the respondents. A Self-structured Interview Schedule was used to document the incidence and identify the perpetrators of sexual harassment among the adolescent girls. A Comprehensive Anxiety Test developed by Sharma (1992), an adapted version of Security-insecurity Scale developed by Shah (1989) and Emotional Maturity Scale developed by Singh and Bhargav (1990) were used to assess the level of anxiety, security and emotional maturity respectively. An Instructional Booklet was developed for sensitizing the adolescents on the issue of sexual abuse and sexual harassment. Most of the adolescent girls (94.50%) were found to be experiencing sexual harassment. Very few of them (5.08%) experienced severe sexual harassment. Majority of the adolescent girls experienced verbal and non-verbal sexual harassment. Significant differences were observed in the physical sexual harassment experienced by the younger and older adolescents; older adolescents experienced more physical sexual harassment. The most common non-verbal indicators of sexual harassment experienced by the adolescents were whistling, winking and staring whereas receiving general comments and suggestive songs were identified as verbal indicators. Rubbing against in crowded places and pushing against in public transport were found to be the most prevalent form of physical sexual harassment. Strangers from adjoining villages, boys from victim’s village, roadside philanderer/flirts, relatives and classmates were identified as the perpetrators of sexual harassment. Sexually harassed adolescents were found to be having high level of anxiety, low level of security and unstable emotional maturity compared to sexually non-harassed adolescents. Statistically also there were highly significant differences among sexually harassed and sexually non-harassed adolescents on these variables.