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Abusive Supervision and Group-Level Perceptions: Looking at the Social Context of Abuse in the Workplace

Gopalkrishnan, Purnima
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1356791768

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational.
Abusive supervision refers to an employee’s perceptions of negative interactions with one’s supervisor that are threatening in a non-physical way. Abusive supervision has been shown to have a negative impact on the individual as well as the organization. However, there is little known about how the social context in which abuse might occur can influence the relationship between abusive supervision and outcome variables. This study proposed to look at how group-level perceptions of supervisor behaviors moderate the relationship between individual level perceptions of abuse and individual level experiences of strain such as physical and psychological health, emotion exhaustion and job satisfaction. Group-level perceptions were predicted to act as a buffer and reduce the negative impact of abusive supervision on individual level outcomes. Groups where there may be a lack of/ low group-level perceptions of abusive supervision, the relationship between abusive supervision and individual level outcomes was expected to be stronger. Data were collected from 43 groups of employees with a final N of 172. Hierarchical Linear Modeling and regression analyses were conducted and the results revealed that there was not enough variability between groups for the moderation effects to be significant. Individual level abusive supervision significantly predicted the individual level outcomes, except in the case of job satisfaction. Since the cross-level analyses using HLM were not significant, moderation analyses were conducted using OLS regression. The moderation analyses were significant only in the case of physical health symptoms and the results were not in the expected direction. Potential explanations for the results and future directions are discussed.
Steve M. Jex, PhD (Advisor)
Mike Zickar, PhD (Committee Member)
William O'Brien, PhD (Committee Member)
Mary E. Benedict, PhD (Committee Member)
87 p.
Behavioral Psychology; Behavioral Sciences; Behaviorial Sciences; Management; Occupational Health; Occupational Psychology; Psychology; Social Psychology; Social Research
Abusive Supervision; Supervision; Workplace; Stress; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Psychology; Physical Health; Depression; Job Satisfaction; Emotional Exhaustion; Well-Being; Cross-level effects; Moderation

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  • Gopalkrishnan, P. (2013). Abusive Supervision and Group-Level Perceptions: Looking at the Social Context of Abuse in the Workplace [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1356791768

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gopalkrishnan, Purnima. Abusive Supervision and Group-Level Perceptions: Looking at the Social Context of Abuse in the Workplace. 2013. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1356791768.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gopalkrishnan, Purnima. "Abusive Supervision and Group-Level Perceptions: Looking at the Social Context of Abuse in the Workplace." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1356791768

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