title: Factors affecting college students' perceptions of sexual relationships between high school students and teachers.
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.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA. mfromuth@frank.mtsu.edu
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Fromuth
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Holt
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003075:Coitus / Q000523:psychology; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D028743:Professional Misconduct; D012737:Sex Factors; D012742:Sex Offenses; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology; D012938:Social Perception; D015144:Southeastern United States; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires