The Interactive Role of Gender in CWB and Workplace Aggression

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• Personal Author:
  Spector P ; Zhou Z
• Description:
  Objective: The purpose of our study was to explore the potential moderating effect of gender in the relationships of job stressors (interpersonal conflict and organizational constraints) and personality variables (agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, hostile attribution bias, and trait anger) with CWB (CWB-O and CWB-P) and workplace aggression (physical and relational). Methods: Self-report data was collected from 673 employed participants at a large public university. The mean age of all participants was 21.6 years (SD = 4.3), and 77% of the sample were female. All study variables were measured using published measures with good reliability. Results: Men were found to engage significantly more in all four types of behaviors. Both job stressors and all personality variables were significantly related to all four types of behaviors. Except for the relationships of conscientiousness and emotional stability with CWB-O, gender was found to moderate the relationships of both job stressors and all personality variables with CWB-O, CWB-P, physical aggression and relational aggression: the differences between men and women were larger when at high levels of trait anger, HAB, interpersonal conflict and organizational constraints, and when at low levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability. Conclusion: Although men were found to engage more in all four types of behaviors, we found that at low levels of predictor variables, both external and internal, that facilitate harmful behaviors, men were no more likely to report CWB or workplace aggression than were women; although both genders likely respond negatively to stressful job conditions, it is men more than women who respond to such conditions aggressively or counterproductively. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aging Behavior Men Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Women
• Keywords:
  Age Groups Author Keywords: Gender CWB Emotional Stress Humans Job Stress Job Stressor Personality Physiological Effects Physiological Stress Psychological Effects Psychological Stress Stress Workplace Aggression

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• Publisher:
  University of South Florida (USF)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064356
• Citation:
  Sunshine ERC Research Poster Session/USF Health Research Day, February 23-24, 2012, Tampa, Florida. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida (USF), 2012 Feb; :15
• Contact Point Address:
  Zhiqing Zhou, Department of Psychology
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Sunshine ERC Research Poster Session/USF Health Research Day, February 23-24, 2012, Tampa, Florida
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ba17018b00d8c5588fcb94d6e926039b1971a1cf304bd1153f2685dc33aeb86ed90f2bd7f91282b9034d3ef3cde5d923b4022667a4132d2778d08ab205eb76fb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222839/cdc_222839_DS1.pdf
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