Resilience as an Underexplored Outcome of Workplace Bullying

Heugten, Kate van

doi:10.1177/1049732312468251

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“…They further commented that individuals with some history of lifetime low or moderate adversity are better adjusted with healthy well-being in recent adverse events than individuals with no history of adversity and high adversity. The concept concurs with the idea that resilience grows with successful process of coping in adversity and leads to a better psychological functioning and well-being (Scali et al, 2012;van Heugten, 2013). In the same way, resilience and successful coping in work stress are able to buffer against negative effects of stress and improve the working females' well-being.…”

Section: Resilience Coping Strategies and Work Stresssupporting

confidence: 70%

Work Stress, Coping Strategies and Resilience: A Study among Working Females

Lian¹,

Tam²

2014

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The aim of this review was to evaluate research relating to the effects of coping strategies and resilience on the level of workplace stress. Much of the research focused on working mothers and working females in general. It was found that working females experienced more work stress as compared to men. And currently in Malaysia, social policies that support working females, especially working mothers, has not been adopted fully by most corporations. Furthermore, the evidence for effective problem-focused and emotion-focused coping was inconsistent. It was concluded that correlation between work stressors and the adopted coping strategies may vary depending on the type of problems being dealt with and the interplay between the employee and the demand. Moreover, resilience literature revealed this concept as an enhancement of an individual's adaptability and survival in the presence of occupational stressors and success in overcoming the stressors results in increased resilience to future hardships. This article identifies a number of research gaps for advancing work stress research, in particular: 1) limited work stress research on Malaysian working women and mothers, and; 2) limited literature on relating resilience to coping strategies and work stress.

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Work Stress, Coping Strategies and Resilience: A Study among Working Females

Lian¹,

Tam²

2014

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“…Furthermore, the current study shows that mental health nurses develop resilience when exposed to violence in the workplace. Resilience as an outcome of workplace violence was also found by Van Heugten () among social workers, who reported positive meaning after experiencing workplace bullying. Studies have not examined mental health nurses' resilience, but rather focused on teamwork and its essential influence on the prevention of exhaustion, burnout, job satisfaction, willingness to stay in the nursing profession, and better quality of patient care in mental health hospitals (Bowers et al .…”

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Exposure of mental health nurses to violence associated with job stress, life satisfaction, staff resilience, and post‐traumatic growth

Itzhaki

Peles‐Bortz

Kostistky

et al. 2015

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Workplace violence towards health workers in hospitals and in mental health units in particular is increasing. The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of exposure to violence, job stress, staff resilience, and post-traumatic growth (PTG) on the life satisfaction of mental health nurses. A descriptive, cross-sectional design was used. The sample consisted of mental health nurses (n = 118) working in a large mental health centre in Israel. Verbal violence by patients was reported by 88.1% of the nurses, and 58.4% experienced physical violence in the past year. Physical and verbal violence towards nurses was correlated with job stress, and life satisfaction was correlated with PTG and staff resilience. Linear regression analyses indicated that life satisfaction was mainly affected by PTG, staff resilience, and job stress, and less by exposure to verbal and physical violence. The present study is the first to show that, although mental health nurses are frequently exposed to violence, their life satisfaction is affected more by staff resilience, PTG, and job stress than by workplace violence. Therefore, it is recommended that intervention programmes that contribute to PTG and staff resilience, as well as those that reduce job stress among mental health nurses, be explored and implemented.

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“…Workplace bullying is known to have severe negative effects on targets, witnesses and organisations. Targets and witnesses can experience stress, anxiety and poor physical and mental health [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ], and these effects persist over time [ 5 ]. Targets risk being excluded from working life because of ill health, stigmatisation, victimisation or reputational damage [ 6 ].…”

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Predictors of Workplace Bullying and Cyber-Bullying in New Zealand

Gardner

O’Driscoll

Cooper‐Thomas

et al. 2016

IJERPH

135

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Background: The negative effects of in-person workplace bullying (WB) are well established. Less is known about cyber-bullying (CB), in which negative behaviours are mediated by technology. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, the current research examined how individual and organisational factors were related to WB and CB at two time points three months apart. Methods: Data were collected by means of an online self-report survey. Eight hundred and twenty-six respondents (58% female, 42% male) provided data at both time points. Results: One hundred and twenty-three (15%) of participants had been bullied and 23 (2.8%) of participants had been cyber-bullied within the last six months. Women reported more WB, but not more CB, than men. Worse physical health, higher strain, more destructive leadership, more team conflict and less effective organisational strategies were associated with more WB. Managerial employees experienced more CB than non-managerial employees. Poor physical health, less organisational support and less effective organisational strategies were associated with more CB. Conclusion: Rates of CB were lower than those of WB, and very few participants reported experiencing CB without also experiencing WB. Both forms of bullying were associated with poorer work environments, indicating that, where bullying is occurring, the focus should be on organisational systems and processes.

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Resilience as an Underexplored Outcome of Workplace Bullying

Cited by 62 publications

References 31 publications

Work Stress, Coping Strategies and Resilience: A Study among Working Females

Work Stress, Coping Strategies and Resilience: A Study among Working Females

Exposure of mental health nurses to violence associated with job stress, life satisfaction, staff resilience, and post‐traumatic growth

Predictors of Workplace Bullying and Cyber-Bullying in New Zealand

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