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. 2018 Mar 15;15:49. doi: 10.1186/s12978-018-0491-x

Table 2.

Proportion of students who perceived the risk of NCS, grouped by sex of the respondent and gender-role attitudes (%)

Items on NCS Male Female
Total Gender-role attitudes Score Total Gender-role attitudes Score
<=2
(n = 164)
> 2
(n = 266)
<=2
(n = 438)
> 2
(n = 231)
Score (mean) 5.67 6.02 5.45* 6.37# 6.44 6.24
Verbal harassment via communication technology 48.14 50.61 46.62 51.87 52.28 51.08
Forced watching porn 57.44 62.20 54.51 65.32# 66.44 63.20
Forced exposure to exhibitionism 60.70 64.63 58.27 76.38# 78.08 73.16
Watched secretly while changing clothes or in similar situations 54.42 56.10 53.38 60.09 60.50 59.31
Disseminating secret pictures/flash without permission 53.26 53.05 53.38 61.73# 62.10 61.04
Sexually suggestive comments 48.37 52.44 45.86 53.96 54.11 53.68
Unwanted touch/frottage 75.81 82.32 71.80 * 84.45 85.16 83.12
Unwanted fondling 80.00 87.20 75.56 * 89.54# 90.41 87.88
Unwanted penetrative sex 88.60 93.29 85.71* 93.42# 94.52 91.34

#significant at p < 0.01compared between gender

*significant at p < 0.05compared between two groups holding different gender-role attitudes within boys or girls