A within-subject longitudinal study of the effects of positive job experiences and generalized workplace harassment
Jenny M Hoobler1, Kathleen M Rospenda, Grace Lemmon
1Department of Managerial Studies, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA. jhoobler@uic.edu
Abstract:
Drawing on the mobilization-minimization hypothesis, this research examines the influence of positive job experiences and generalized workplace harassment (GWH) on employee job stress and well-being over time, postulating declines in the adverse influence of GWH between Time 1 and 2 and less pronounced declines in the influence of positive job experiences over this same timeframe of approximately one year. A national sample of 1,167 workers polled via telephone at two time periods illustrates that negative job experiences weigh more heavily on mental health than do positive job experiences in the short-term. In the long-term, GWH's association with mental health and job stress was diminished. But its effects on job stress, and mental health, and physical health persist over one year, and, in the case of long-term mental health, GWH overshadows the positive mental health effects of positive job experiences. The research also argues for a reconceptualization of GWH and positive job experiences as formative latent variables on theoretical grounds.
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