Sexual harassment among young people in organized leisure and sports environments

Project Manager: Therése Skoog, University of Gothenburg.

Sexual harassment (SH) is a serious and common threat to young people's health and well-being. Organized leisure activities such as club sports have been noticed as an environment where SH occurs among young people. At the same time, there is a lack of knowledge, especially in Sweden, about SH among young people in organized leisure environments and how it overlaps with ST in school and what risk and protective factors exist. 

We will use data collected on 3 occasions during the upper secondary school period from 812 young people. We intend to study: the emergence of SH in sports and school environments, the consequence of SH for young people's relationship to club sports and the interaction between SH in leisure activities and school. The knowledge from the project will be central to developing successful measures against SH among young people in sports and other leisure environments.