ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Workplace Bullying and Long-Term Sickness Absence-A Five-Year Follow-Up Study of 2476 Employees Aged 31 to 60 Years in Germany.
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- 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
- Bidirectional associations between workplace bullying and sickness absence due to common mental disorders - a propensity-score matched cohort study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Relationship between Patients' Demands and Workplace Violence among Healthcare Workers: A Multilevel Look Focusing on the Moderating Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Workplace Bullying and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptomology: The Influence of Role Conflict and the Moderating Effects of Neuroticism and Managerial Competencies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe aim was to investigate workplace bullying as a risk factor for five-year occurrence of long-term sickness absence (LTSA) in a representative cohort of employees in Germany.
methodsIn the German Study on Mental Health at Work (S-MGA) (
resultsSevere bullying heightened the risk for LTSA by approximately 50% (Rate ratio-RR: 1.48, 95% Confidence interval-CI: 1.05; 2.19), while occasional bullying heightened the risk by 15% (RR: 1.15, CI: 0.85; 1.55). When excluding LTSA events occurring in the first 2 years, the associations between bullying and LTSA increased by approximately one third.
conclusionsWorkplace bullying seems to be a risk factor for LTSA even when controlling for occupational level, smoking and physical demands at work and when taking possible reverse causality into account. We suggest to investigate effects of LTSA in more settings, to distinguish between occasional and severe bullying and employ longer follow-up intervals.
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