Harassment Exposure
Dimension 529 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Harassment Exposure measures the extent to which an expression describes being targeted with demeaning, hostile, discriminatory, or sexually inappropriate treatment by other people. It encompasses interpersonal disrespect, unfair treatment, identity-based hostility, and explicit sexual harassment.
Minimal Harassment Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe generally fair, comfortable, or neutral interpersonal treatment, with little to no indication of being targeted by hostile or degrading behavior.
Low Harassment Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe isolated hurtful, boundary-crossing, or demeaning interactions, including personal insults, sexualized comments, or identity-related slights that feel upsetting but are not yet framed as sustained hostility.
Moderate Harassment Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe clear unfairness, disrespect, or offensive remarks in ongoing social settings, often involving supervisors, staff, or group-based prejudice such as ethnic or gender-related hostility.
High Harassment Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe recurrent hostile treatment marked by harassment, intimidation, surveillance, blocked advancement, or direct discriminatory acts in organized settings. The mistreatment is presented as patterned, targeted, and consequential.
Severe Harassment Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe explicit sexual harassment, including inappropriate sexual remarks, jokes, suggestions, or demands that violate personal boundaries. The treatment is overtly degrading and clearly framed as harassment.