Exploring risk groups workplace bullying with categorical data

Industrial Health

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-88

  Notelaers, Guy ^a,d   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^b   Baillien, Elfi ^c   Einarsen, Ståle ^a   de Witte, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Organisational and Personnel Psychology (WOPP)   (Belgium)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Latent class cluster analysis; Multinomial regression; Risks groups; Workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BULLYING; CATERING SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BELGIUM; BULLYING; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951558990     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.MS1155     Document Type: Article

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