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Do PTSD Symptoms Interact with Supervisor Mistreatment to Predict Anxiety and Paranoia?

Do PTSD Symptoms Interact with Supervisor Mistreatment to Predict Anxiety and Paranoia?

Being treated unfairly at the workplace may interact with symptoms of PTSD, causing an increase in paranoia and anxiety. To test this, 205 participants were recruited on Qualtrics and read unfair or fair workplace scenario vignettes. Hierarchical linear regression failed to support the hypotheses that unfair workplace treatment combined with PTSD symptoms increases both anxiety and paranoia. Results indicate that unfair workplace treatment predicted paranoia, while PTSD symptoms were correlated with anxiety.

Do PTSD symptoms and unfair workplace treatment interactively influence workplace perceptions and behavior?

Do PTSD symptoms and unfair workplace treatment interactively influence workplace perceptions and behavior?

Unfair workplace treatment may interact with PTSD symptoms leading to increased perceived intent to harm and counterproductive workplace behavior. To test this, 205 participants viewed unfair or fair workplace vignettes. Hierarchical linear regression partially supported the hypothesis that unfair workplace treatment combined with PTSD symptoms increases perceived intent to harm and counterproductive behavior. Results suggest that unfair workplace treatment and PTSD symptoms predicted counterproductive workplace behavior, while PTSD symptoms only predicted perceived intent to harm.

Can’t we all just get along? A nomological network of workplace mistreatment

Can’t we all just get along? A nomological network of workplace mistreatment

Our current examination of workplace mistreatment literature is conducted on a secondary level to identify trends and concerns across multiple research streams and unique to specific forms of mistreatment. The current work addresses these commonalities and unique concerns by identifying a holistic framework of workplace aggression, including immediate factors surrounding mistreatment, lenses through which the phenomena can be examined, and secondary-level categories for mistreatment influences (e.g., antecedents, outcomes). This framework was constructed through a thorough review and coding of 31 meta-analyses, qualitative reviews, and book chapters. The identified second-level categories of influences and outcomes of mistreatment may be practically useful for organizations when examining relationships and desired outcomes for workers, while the identified patterns of commonality in mistreatment research (e.g., prevalence of target perspective) highlight opportunities for future research (e.g., perpetrator perspective).

Nurses Can’t Even: The immediate impact of incivility of affect, well being, and behavior

Nurses Can’t Even: The immediate impact of incivility of affect, well being, and behavior

The immediate progression of incivility needs more investigation to understand its insidious consequences and affective shift provides strong theoretical support for a mechanism. A daily diary study using a nursing sample, a profession notorious for incivility exposure, observed that daily progression of coworker incivility resulted in a downshift in positive affect and an upshift in negative affect, and that this affective shift influenced the wellbeing measure of blood pressure but not the behavioral measure of procrastination. Limitations of range restriction, self reported measures, and sample size contributed to the results, but overall conclusions suggest that incivility influences emotions and physiological systems immediately and that the structure of the profession possibly influences behavioral outcomes.

Long-term effects of workplace harassment on mental health and alcohol use

Long-term effects of workplace harassment on mental health and alcohol use

Individuals were surveyed about their exposure to workplace sexual and generalized harassment, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and alcohol use/misuse at 8 timepoints between 1996-2007 (W1-W8) and were resurveyed in 2020 (W9). Bivariate analyses indicate that those who were exposed to chronic sexual or generalized harassment at W1-W8 reported significantly greater symptoms of depression and anxiety and past 30 day measures of heavy alcohol use. These results suggest that workplace harassment can have long-term health implications for targets, and that enforcement of existing laws that prohibit sexual harassment and enactment of similar laws to protect workers against workplace bullying could help to protect long-term health of workers.