EFFECTS OF HARASSMENT ON STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE AT UNIVERSITIES IN KARACHI

Abstract

Purpose - Harassment occurs when a person constantly applies his power over a person. A wide range of unwelcome and unwanted behavior has been covered by the researcher. According to Pepler and Craig (2000), the most common form of harassment is violence, it is something that energies the violence and allowing the most influential person to dominate the less influential person around him. Students who get harassed or assault can be considered as a "passive or submissive victim" and these victims make themselves surrounded or bound and remain quiet, confused, and aggressive and start crying over little things. These kind of students are not confident enough to take a decision about self and they start thinking negative and become self-esteem (Oghiagbephan, 2010). This research is focused on examining the factors that affect performance of the students at universities in Karachi. The study is specifically focused on four independent variables: physical well-being, mental well-being, academic performance and professional development and one dependent variable: student performance. For this research, five universities were selected to collect the data from and the data collected from undergraduate and graduate students. Research methodology/approach - The nature of this research is descriptive research. The researcher has selected quantitative research method and he sampling techniques that were used in this research is convenience sampling. The sample size for this study is 380 that is taken from Krejcie and Morgan table. Structured and formal and self-administered survey questionnaire was developed which includes questions based on a Likert scale. The study adopted quantitative research and used survey questionnaire in order to collect data for primary study. A sample of 380 participants was selected using the convenience sampling technique. Findings - The findings of this paper suggest that factors of harassment do affect the student performance at universities.