An empirical investigation of the relationship among forms of workplace mistreatment

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• Personal Author:
  Magley VJ ; Walsh BM
• Description:
  Organizational researchers argue that workplace mistreatment scholarship is hampered because of the wide variety of constructs studied. To investigate this concern, we conducted an item-level analysis of the relationship among workplace mistreatment experiences to assess construct overlap. Employed students reported how similar 17 mistreatment experiences were to one another (i.e., from measures of sexual harassment, generalized harassment, and incivility) and subject matter experts indicated the degree to which each experience represented several dimensions including Buss's (1961) dimensions (i.e., verbal/physical, active/passive, and direct/indirect) and others (i.e., sexual/ nonsexual and intentional/accidental). Nonsexual forms of mistreatment (i.e., generalized harassment and incivility) were perceived similarly despite their different conceptual definitions, whereas sexual harassment experiences were relatively distinct. Implications of the findings are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Generalized Harassment Force Physical-reactions Physical-stress Physiological-effects Physiological-stress Physiology Sexual Harassment Work-environment Workers Workplace Aggression Workplace Incivility Workplace Mistreatment

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• ISSN:
  0886-6708
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  363-379
• Volume:
  29
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044358
• Citation:
  Violence Vict 2014 Mar-Apr; 29(2):363-379
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  University of Connecticut Storrs, Storrs-Mansfield
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Violence and Victims
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8704b98f463dfd2c643cefe25faccebe3fe7ad094a09dde8705f38f3395fe166c048a2bed3870da94159a169fa94e2c615c09b5bbae945b51c0c463b6e0ddf91
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200074/cdc_200074_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 311.49 KB ]