Factors affecting college students' perceptions of sexual relationships between high school students and teachers
M E Fromuth1, A Holt, A L Parker
1Psychology Department, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA. mfromuth@frank.mtsu.edu
Abstract:
This study explored the effects of respondent gender, gender combination (male teacher/female student versus female teacher/male student), and teacher age (24 versus 39-years-old) on the perception of a sexual relationship between a teacher and a 16-year-old student. Participants were 80 male and 80 female undergraduates. A MANOVA yielded significant main effects for respondent gender and gender combination. Subsequent ANOVAs indicated that men generally viewed the experience more positively and that the male teacher/female student combination was viewed more negatively than the female teacher/male student pairing.
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