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.