ArticleIndustrial health2015
Take it or leave: a five-year prospective study of workplace bullying and indicators of expulsion in working life.
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- Associations between workplace bullying and later benefit recipiency among workers with common mental disorders.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2022Trial
- Exposure to workplace bullying and violence/threats of violence and subsequent working life expectancy among older workers: A Swedish prospective cohort study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Not all workplace bullying perpetrators are alike: health, personality, and occupational profiles of perpetrator-only and target-perpetrator employees.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Revealing the confluences of workplace bullying, suicidality, and their association with depression.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Being nice, outgoing, curious, organized, and calm-protective or eroded by workplace bullying? Reciprocal effects of personality and bullying, and mechanisms to explain the associations.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The last resort: Workplace bullying and the consequences of changing jobs.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2022Article
- Healing the wounds of workplace bullying: Evaluating mental health and workplace participation among victims seeking treatment for common mental disorders.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Mental Health Problems as a Risk Factor for Workplace Bullying: The Protective Effect of a Well-Functioning Organization.Annals of work exposures and health · 2021Article
- Exposure to bullying behaviours and support from co-workers and supervisors: a three-way interaction and the effect on health and well-being.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2020Article
- Clinical Characteristics of Patients Seeking Treatment for Common Mental Disorders Presenting With Workplace Bullying Experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Workplace Bullying as a Predictor of Disability Retirement: A Prospective Registry Study of Norwegian Employees.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2017Article
- Researching Complex and Multi-Level Workplace Factors Affecting Disability and Prolonged Sickness Absence.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2016Article
- Do the bullies survive? A five-year, three-wave prospective study of indicators of expulsion in working life among perpetrators of workplace bullying.Industrial health · 2016Article
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Abstract
Workplace bullying is often held as a precursor of expulsion in working life, but the claim builds on sparse empirical groundwork. In the present study, bullying is investigated as an antecedent to indicators of expulsion, be it from the workplace (change of employer) or from working life itself (disability benefit recipiency and unemployment), using a nationally representative sample (n=1,613), a five-year time-lag as well as two separate measures of workplace bullying. In line with the hypotheses, logistic regression analyses revealed that both exposure to bullying behaviors and self-labeled bullying are significantly associated with change of employer (OR=1.77 and 2.42, respectively) and disability benefit recipiency (OR=2.81 and 2.95, respectively). Moreover, exposure to bullying behaviors was found to be significantly related to unemployment five years on (OR=4.6). For the self-labeling measure of bullying, this tendency only held true at the 0.1 significance level (OR=3.69, p=0.098). Together, the present results indicate that targets of bullying are at a greater risk of expulsion, both from the workplace and from working life itself, thus representing strong incentives to combat bullying both from the perspective of the individual, the organization and society at large.
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