Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J Psychosom Res. 2018 Aug;111:15-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2018.05.003. Epub 2018 May 9.
Organizational justice refers to perceived fairness at the workplace. Individual perceptions of injustice have been linked to reduced mental and physical health. However, perceptions of injustice also exist at the aggregate level of departments, reflecting a shared perception, denoted as justice climate. There is evidence that this shared perception independently predicts individual distress levels (e.g., anxiety, depression), which might negatively affect somatic symptom perception and reporting. Hence, the objective of this study was to examine whether individual perceptions of poor justice as well as a poor justice climate are related to elevated somatic complaints. In addition, this study examined if justice climate moderates the relationship between individual-level justice perceptions and somatic symptom reporting.
Cross-sectional data from a large industrial manufacturing company was used, involving 1,102 employees in 31 departments. A validated scale covering interactional and procedural justice assessed individual-level organizational justice. A 19-item symptom checklist measured somatic complaints. Multilevel analyses estimated individual-level associations (within-department effects) with somatic complaints, department-level associations (between-department effects), and the cross-level interaction of both.
Individual-level justice perceptions were negatively associated with somatic complaints. Collective justice climate was likewise significantly associated with somatic complaints. There was no indication for a moderation effect of justice climate.
A poor justice climate correlated positively with individual somatic complaints while controlling for individual perceptions, i.e., above and beyond individual justice perceptions. These findings may imply that interventions targeting department-level perceptions of justice may have the potential to reduce individual somatic complaints beyond the effects of individual-level interventions.
组织公正指的是工作场所的公平感知。个体对不公正的感知与心理健康和身体健康的下降有关。然而，不公正的感知也存在于部门的总体水平上，反映了一种共同的感知，即公正氛围。有证据表明，这种共同的感知独立地预测个体的困扰水平（例如，焦虑、抑郁），这可能会对躯体症状的感知和报告产生负面影响。因此，本研究的目的是检验个体对不公正的感知以及不公正的氛围是否与躯体症状的增加有关。此外，本研究还检验了公正氛围是否调节了个体公正感知与躯体症状报告之间的关系。
使用一家大型工业制造公司的横断面数据，涉及 31 个部门的 1102 名员工。一个涵盖交互和程序公正的验证量表评估了个体层面的组织公正。一个 19 项症状清单测量了躯体症状。多层次分析估计了个体层面与躯体症状的关联（部门内效应）、部门层面的关联（部门间效应）以及两者的跨层次交互作用。
个体公正感知与躯体症状呈负相关。集体公正氛围也与躯体症状显著相关。没有公正氛围的调节作用的迹象。
在控制个体感知的情况下，不良的公正氛围与个体的躯体症状呈正相关，即超出了个体公正感知的影响。这些发现可能意味着，针对部门层面公正感知的干预措施有可能在个体层面干预措施的效果之外，降低个体的躯体症状。
