All conduct that violates the dignity of the person by creating an intimidating environment, humiliating or offensive based on ethnicity, age, religions, convictions, disability, orientation sexual, etc... is classified as harassment. In this Psychology-Online article we will address the issue from the stalker's perspective: How does he act? How to detect it? What are their characteristics? What to do in a situation of harassment? When does the bullying stop? We will answer all these questions for a better understanding and prevention of the phenomenon.
First of all, it is necessary to differentiate between the different types of harassment that we can find:
- Workplace Harassment: behaviors of intense psychological violence directed repeatedly and for a long time from a position of power, with the intention of creating a hostile and humiliating environment in the workplace.
- sexual harassment: any verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature that produces the effect of undermining the dignity of a person.
- Harassment for reasons of sex: behavior carried out based on the sex of a person with the purpose of undermining their dignity and creating an intimidating, degrading or offensive environment.
- Bullying: any form of physical, verbal or psychological abuse that occurs between schoolchildren repeatedly over time.
How to know if it is workplace harassment?
The keys to detect the Workplace Harassment They are:
- Authority abuse.
- Limit relationships.
- Criticize or comment on the victim's private life.
- Humiliating treatment: assault, ignore ...
How do you know if it is sexual harassment?
Some common examples to help you spot the sexual harassment:
- Deliberate, unsolicited and unnecessary physical contact such as touching, kissing, patting ...
- Unnecessary and excessive physical approach.
- Repeated and deliberate search for meetings alone with the person unnecessarily in extra-academic hours and places, for example.
How do you know if it is harassment for reasons of sex?
Some of the most common examples of sex-based harassment are:
- Attacking physically or verbally to demonstrate the superiority of one sex to another at parties, cultural events ...
- Ignore contributions, comments, actions.
- Ridicule, use pejorative expressions or belittle capacities and abilities because they belong to a certain sex.
- Penalize workers for exercising the exercise of maternity or paternity.
- Assigning or asking a person tasks based on sexist biases.
- Use gestures that create an intimidating environment.
- Using sexist humor in academia among others.
How do you know if it is bullying?
All those acts that psychologically or physically harm the child and meet the following characteristics will be signs of bullying:
- Intentionality
- Repetition
- Power imbalance
The profiles of the stalkers vary according to the typology we are talking about. We can find some common features, but later we would have to dig deeper for a closer approximation. These are the general features:
- Not very tolerant people who do not support in others a way of doing things different from what they consider appropriate. Does not tolerate discrepancies.
- People unable to tolerate stress to which they are subjected, thereby exerting the same pressure they feel on others. As they humiliate them, they also humiliate; so you can blame the system and not assume any responsibility.
- People who use power and that feeling like anxiolytic to calm down.
- Obsessive personalities: individuals with an obsessive character have an immense need to dominate, control, classify.
- Narcissistic personality disorder: here you will find detailed characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder.
- Paranoid personality disorder: in the following article you can see more information about paranoid personality disorder.
It is complex to answer this question since there are different types of stalkers and they act in different ways. Experts divide between: psychotic and non-psychotic. Inside, we find the following subcategories:
- Rejected
- Resentful
- Loved
- Suitor
- Predator
The amount of time you can spend getting tired varies and may not. You should not wait for this to happenActing before the situation becomes more serious is the best prevention since there is no exact equation to know when a stalker will tire.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
