Self-stigmatization and Coping strategies of campus sexual harassment Victims in China

Abstract

 Sexual harassment is frequent on Chinese campuses, and the self-stigmatization of victims has adverse effects on their physical and mental health. The social stigma attached to victims of sexual harassment leads them to magnify the social consequences of the incident and ignore their harm. Fearful of being killed again, they attribute it to their problems, leading to increased self-stigma. In response to campus sexual harassment, the positive intergroup contact between the victim and the public should be increased so that the victim and the public can realize that the victim is not the party at fault. The moral bondage of traditional female images should be broken to help the victim gain social recognition, recognize their value, improve their sense of self-efficacy and stop self-stigma.