Abstract :
Cyber sexual harassment (CSH is increasingly recognised as a widespread but locally under-documented feature of young people's digital lives. This study examined the extent and dimensions of CSH among late adolescents and young adults in Pakistan and assessed how victimisation varied across key demographic and social-media-use characteristics. A cross-sectional survey design was used, and data were collected via an anonymous online questionnaire from students at public and private universities across Pakistan, using convenience sampling. The final analytic sample comprised 1,155 respondents (52.7% women, 47.1% men; age range 16–35 years, M = 22.04, SD = 3.08). Victimisation was assessed with the 21-item Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence Victimization Scale (TFSV-VS; Powell & Henry, 2019), which yielded excellent internal consistency in this sample (? = .97). Overall, 45.0% of participants reported experiencing at least one of the 21 assessed forms of CSH at least once, and 23.3% reported repeated victimisation. Digital sexual harassment was the most prevalent of the scale's four conceptual domains (40.7%), followed by gender- and sexuality-based harassment (19.7%), image-based sexual abuse (17.4%), and sexual aggression and coercion (15.0%). Victimisation did not differ significantly by gender or age group but was significantly associated with relationship status and, most strongly, with daily social-media use, which showed a graded, dose–response relationship with victimisation. These findings establish that CSH is a highly prevalent, multidimensional, and socially patterned phenomenon among Pakistani youth and provide an empirical foundation for prevention efforts, institutional policy, and further qualitative and clinical research on its psychological consequences.