Why it's important for it to stop: Examining the mental health correlates of bullying and ill-treatment at work in a cohort study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1085-1095

  Butterworth, Peter ^a,b,c   Leach, Liana S ^a   Kiely, Kim M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; harassment; mental health; Workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BULLYING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; WORK ILL TREATMENT; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORKPLACE;

ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; BULLYING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84994619209     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004867415622267     Document Type: Article

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