Rayner, C. & Hoel, H. (1997) A summary review of literature relating to workplace bullying. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 7 (3) 181-191.
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Overview of literature on workplace bullying
To gather the English-language research together and summarize it. The authors note that while there has been significant research on the subject of bullying in schools, there has been much less on the subject of adult bullying. They note that there are problems with the definition of bullying as applied to this context, which leaves room for a lot of study, but also poses challenges in tying the different forms of bullying together.
Overarching research question or theory: The authors are seeking to put the different research on the subject in one place so that they can better understand the definition of workplace bullying, the scope of the research that has been done on both its forms and its consequences. They note that the research done so far has identifying many different types of bullying, but that there is limited scope to the research itself. Most of it comes from Scandinavia so may have limited applicability to other consequences, though the authors do seek to parse the elements of the research that have broader applicability.
The authors also want to look at what they consider to be the difficulties in studying this issue. They identify several challenges that are faced in studying the issue, including the breadth of bullying, the fact that most studies are based almost entirely on victim self-reports, and just the different types of approaches that researchers have had in addressing this issue. The authors in part seek to start tying the different research threads together with their paper.
Kivimaki, M., Virtanen, M., Vartia, M., Elovainio, M., Vahtera, J. & Jarvinen, L. (2003). Workplace bullying and the risk of cardiovascular disease and depression. Occupational Environment Journal. 60 (2003) 779-783.
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This researcher obtained a majority of the relevant, scholarly research through Questia, which advertises itself as the world's largest online library. During the third chapter of this research effort, the methodology segment, this researcher relates techniques utilized in the Literature Research Methodology to manipulate information which later contributed to the verdict of the hypothesis for this study. Information related to implementing and retrieving the bullying questionnaire is shared during the
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