In Romania, personal harassment such as offensive comments, threats or gestures was more common than cyberharassment. Only nine percent of respondents stated that they had been a victim of cyberharassment in the last five years.
Did you experience any form of harassment in the last 5 years?
* People from all EU Member States, North Macedonia and the United Kingdom.
The question asked in the survey was ‘In the past 5 years, how many times has somebodydone any of the following things to you? A) Made offensive or threatening comments to you in person such as insulting you or calling you names, B) Threatened you with violence in person, C) Made offensive or threatening gestures or stared at you inappropriately, D) Send you emails or text messages (SMS) that were offensive or threatening, E) Posted offensive or threatening comments about you on the internet, for example on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp’. The answer categories used in the survey were ‘Never in the past 5 years’, ‘Once’, ‘Twice’, ‘Three to five times’, ‘Six to ten times’, ‘More than ten times’,
‘All the time’, ‘Prefer not to say’ and ‘Don’t know’. In the figure above, category ‘In-person harassment’ is a combination of answers to items A, B and C in the survey, while category ‘Cyberharassment’ combines answers to items D and E.
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