Resilience as an Underexplored Outcome of Workplace Bullying

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 291-301

  Van Heugten, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

health and well being; resilience; social support; stress distress; workplace

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BULLYING; CONTROL; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL WORK; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADULT; BULLYING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL WORK; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE;

EID: 84873053433     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312468251     Document Type: Article

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