Assessing the mobbing risk in organizations: Contribution to the Italian validation of the Short Negative Acts Questionnaire (S-NAQ);Valutare il rischio mobbing nelle organizzazioni Contributo alla validazione italiana dello Short Negative Acts Questionnaire (S-NAQ)

Psicologia Sociale

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-167

  Balducci, Cristian ^a   Spagnoli, Paola ^b   Alfano, Vincenzo ^b   Barattucci, Massimiliano ^c   Notelaers, Guy ^d   Fraccaroli, Franco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Italian validation; psychometric properties 145 166 .; Mobbing; S NAQ; Workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009510269     PISSN: 18272517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1482/32024     Document Type: Review

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