Abstract:
The main purpose of!his study was to investigate sexual harassment against secondary schoolgirls and its psychological consequences specifically in relation to its prevalence, perpetrators, places of harassment within the school setting, coping strategies and its impact on schoolgirls self esteem and level depression. To achieve this purpose 7 out of 37 schools 575 schoolgirls out of 2765 and seven school principals out of fourteen were taken in the first phase of the sampling process and then a total 467 sexual harassment victi!Jf schoolgirls were selected through multistage sampling. The data ~re collected through four different questionnaires from schoolgirls and through an interview conducted with school principals.