Relationship Between Changes in Workplace Bullying Status and the Reporting of Personality Characteristics
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OBJECTIVE: To examine whether a shift in work-related bullying status, from being non-bullied to being bullied or vice versa, was associated with changes in reporting of personality characteristics.
METHODS: Data on bullying and personality (neuroticism, extraversion, and sense of coherence) were collected in three waves approximately 2 years apart (N = 4947). Using a within-subjects design, personality change scores that followed altered bullying status were evaluated with one-sample t tests. Sensitivity analyses targeted depressive symptoms.
RESULTS: Shifts from non-bullied to frequently bullied were associated with increased neuroticism or decreased sense of coherence manageability scores. Shifts from bullied to non-bullied were associated with decreasing neuroticism and increasing extraversion scores, or increasing sense of coherence meaningfulness and comprehensibility scores. Excluding depressive cases had minor effects.
CONCLUSIONS: Bullying seems to some extent to affect personality scale scores, which thus seem sensitive to environmental and social circumstances.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 9 |
Pages (from-to) | 902–910 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISSN | 1076-2752 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sep 2016 |
ID: 164585278