Local social norms and military sexual stressors: do senior officers' norms matter?

Objective: To examine the relative importance of harassment-tolerant norms emanating from troops senior officers, immediate supervisors, and units on troops' sexual stressor experiences and to see whether associations differed by sex.

Method: Cross-sectional survey of all 681 willing and confirmed active duty troops enrolled in the VA National Enrollment Database between 1998 and 2002. Findings extended an earlier analysis.

Functioning and psychiatric symptoms among military men and women exposed to sexual stressors.

Objective: The goal was to describe military men's and women's functioning and psychiatric symptoms according to their military sexual stressor exposure.

Method: A cross-sectional survey of 204 Army soldiers and 611 other active duty troops (487 men and 327 women) was performed.

Results: Forty-five percent of men and 80% of women reported at least one sexual stressor type (i.