Measuring workplace bullying: Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the negative acts questionnaire

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 216-226

  Tsuno, Kanami ^a,b   Kawakami, Norito ^b   Inoue, Akiomi ^a,b   Abe, Kiyoko ^c  

^a JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Japanese Nursing Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Harassment at work; Mobbing; Prevalence; Scale development; Workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BULLYING; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; JAPAN; MALE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BULLYING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATIONS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 77957073702     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: 13489585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.L10036     Document Type: Article

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