Workplace bullying, psychological hardiness, and accidents and injuries in nursing: a moderated mediation model

Stephen T. T. Teo; Diep Nguyen; Fiona Trevelyan; Felicity Lamm; Mark Boocock

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244426

Workplace bullying, psychological hardiness, and accidents and injuries in nursing: a moderated mediation model

Stephen T. T. Teo^*, Diep Nguyen, Fiona Trevelyan, Felicity Lamm, Mark Boocock

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Workplace bullying are prevalent among the nursing workforce. Consequences of workplace bullying include psychological stress and workplace accidents and injuries. Psychological hardiness is proposed as a buffer for workplace bullying and psychological stress on workplace accidents and injuries. This study adopted the Affective Events Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory to develop and test a moderated mediated model in two field studies. Study 1 (N = 286, Australian nurses) found support for the direct negative effect of workplace bullying on workplace accidents and injuries with psychological stress acting as the mediator. The mediation findings from Study 1 were replicated in Study 2 (N = 201, New Zealand nurses). In addition, Study 2 supplemented Study 1 by providing empirical support for using psychological hardiness as the buffer for the association between psychological stress and workplace accidents and injuries. This study offers theoretical and empirical insights into the research and practice on psychological hardiness for improving the psychological well-being of employees who faced workplace mistreatments.

Original language	English
Article number	e0244426
Number of pages	15
Journal	PLoS One
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244426
Publication status	Published - 8 Jan 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Accidents
Adult
Bullying/psychology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Discriminant Analysis
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Theoretical
New Zealand
Nurses/psychology
Stress, Psychological
Surveys and Questionnaires
Workplace
Wounds and Injuries

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