Identifying Victims of Workplace Bullying by Integrating Traditional Estimation Approaches Into a Latent Class Cluster Model

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1155-1177

  Leon Perez, Jose M ^a   Notelaers, Guy ^b,c   Arenas, Alicia ^d   Munduate, Lourdes ^d   Medina, Francisco J ^d  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

interpersonal conflict; latent class cluster; mobbing; working conditions; workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BULLYING; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIME VICTIM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BULLYING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921272291     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260513506280     Document Type: Article

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