Workplace bullying among teachers

What is it about?

This research aims to examine and help understand how workplace bullying, a collection of predominant organizational factors, and job dissatisfaction -as mediating construct- might conjointly exert direct and indirect influence on the emergence of negative health perception among teaching professionals in organizational setting.

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Why is it important?

The methodology utilized for testing the hypotheses of research is statistically based on partial least squares structural modeling, relying on a sample population of 2,328 educators in Europe. Results vindicate that negative health perception escalates when there is a direct conditioned correlation between this and either bullying or the working conditions construct here studied. Additional indirect effects on health perception are unveiled when dissatisfaction comes into picture as mediating construct. From a theoretical perspective, this research intends to contribute to the current body of knowledge implemented for the design of preventive wellness policies in educational institutions. From a practical standpoint, the implications arising from this study pretend to assist those responsible for the coordination of human resource in establishing and monitoring internal guidelines in learning centers, facilitating custom support, harmonious relationships, and balanced environments.