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- Title
The relative impact of workplace bullying as a social stressor at work.
- Authors
HAUGE, LARS JOHAN; SKOGSTAD, ANDERS; EINARSEN, STÅLE
- Abstract
Hauge, L. J., Skogstad, A. & Einarsen, S. (2010). The relative impact of workplace bullying as a social stressor at work. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 51, 426–433. Exposure to workplace bullying has been argued to be a severe social stressor and a more crippling and devastating problem for affected individuals than the effects of all other work-related stressors put together. However, few studies have explicitly investigated this assumption. In a representative sample of the Norwegian working population, the present study investigated the relative contribution of workplace bullying as a predictor of individual and organizational related outcomes after controlling for the well-documented job stressors of job demands, decision authority, role ambiguity and role conflict. Bullying was found to be a significant predictor of all the outcomes included, showing a substantial relative contribution in relation to anxiety and depression, while for job satisfaction, turnover intention and absenteeism, more modest relative contributions were identified. Workplace bullying is indeed a potent social stressor with consequences similar to, or even more severe than, the effects of other stressors frequently encountered within organizations. Thus, the finding that bullying has a considerable effect on exposed individuals also when controlling for the effects of other job stressors demonstrates bullying as a serious problem at workplaces that needs to be actively prevented and managed in its own right.
- Subjects
NORWAY; JOB absenteeism; AGGRESSION (Psychology); ANALYSIS of variance; ANXIETY; BULLYING; CHI-squared test; COMPUTER software; STATISTICAL correlation; MENTAL depression; JOB satisfaction; JOB stress; LABOR turnover; LISTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION analysis; RESEARCH funding; ROLE conflict; WORK environment; DATA analysis; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; MAXIMUM likelihood statistics
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2010, Vol 51, Issue 5, p426
- ISSN
0036-5564
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00813.x