Do Personal Dispositions Affect the Relationship Between Psychosocial Working Conditions and Workplace Bullying?

Abstract

A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 2 ABSTRACT There is scarce research on the interaction between psychosocial working conditions and being a target of workplace bullying with individual characteristics as a moderator. We therefore examined 3363 employees from 60 Danish workplaces to test whether sense of coherence moderates the relationship between the job demand-control model and bullying. This work is exploratory in nature, as no previous study to assess this moderation was found. Hierarchical linear regressions showed that demand-control model was significantly associated with bullying.Sense of coherence displayed a significant, though practically negligible moderating effect. This suggests that negative psychosocial working conditions are associated with bullying independently of personal characteristics, at least in terms of sense of coherence.

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