“…It is associated with the powerlessness to concentrate, mood swings, anxiety, sleep problems, fear, and depressive symptoms as well as psychosomatic symptoms such as headaches, respiratory and cardiac complaints, hypertension, and hypersensitivity to sounds (Hallberg et al, 2015;Macintosh, 2016;Karatza et al, 2016;Devonish et al, 2017). A study of Norwegian employees investigated employees exposed to workplace bullying finds that the targets exhibit psychological distress 1.77 times more than those who were not experiencing workplace bullying (Reknes et al, 2014).…”