Department of Hygiene, School of Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan (Drs Tsuno, Miyashita); Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Kawachi); Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Dr Kawakami).
J Occup Environ Med. 2018 Dec;60(12):1067-1072. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001433.
We sought to investigate the contextual effect of workplace bullying on subsequent individual psychological distress and intention to leave.
A longitudinal study was conducted among 3142 Japanese employees in the public sector. Both the baseline and follow-up questionnaires inquired about demographic and occupational characteristics, workplace bullying, psychological distress, and intention to leave.
The results of three-level (individual-division-department) multilevel analyses revealed that division-level workplace bullying was associated with increased individual-level psychological distress after adjustment for individual experience of workplace bullying, while the association between individual experience of bullying and psychological distress was not statistically significant in the same model.
The results of the current study suggest that the presence of bullying in the workplace can have a detrimental effect on employees' mental health even if they are not personally victimized.
本研究旨在探讨工作场所欺凌对个体后续心理困扰和离职意向的情境影响。
对 3142 名日本公共部门员工进行了一项纵向研究。基线和随访问卷均询问了人口统计学和职业特征、工作场所欺凌、心理困扰和离职意向。
三级(个人-部门-部门)多层分析结果表明,在调整了个体经历的工作场所欺凌后,部门层面的工作场所欺凌与个体层面的心理困扰增加有关,而在同一模型中,个体经历的欺凌与心理困扰之间的关联并不具有统计学意义。
本研究结果表明,即使员工个人没有受到欺凌,工作场所欺凌的存在也会对员工的心理健康产生不利影响。