TY - JOUR
T1 - Relationship Between Changes in Workplace Bullying Status and the Reporting of Personality Characteristics
AU - Persson, Roger
AU - Høgh, Annie
AU - Grynderup, Matias Brødsgaard
AU - Willert, Morten Vejs
AU - Gullander, Maria
AU - Hansen, Åse Marie
AU - Kolstad, Henrik Albert
AU - Mors, Ole
AU - Mikkelsen, Eva Gemze
AU - Kristensen, Ann Suhl
AU - Kaerlev, Linda
AU - Rugulies, Reiner
AU - Bonde, Jens Peter Ellekilde
PY - 2016/9
Y1 - 2016/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000822
DO - 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000822
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27454394
VL - 58
SP - 902
EP - 910
JO - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
JF - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
SN - 1076-2752
IS - 9
ER -