Suffering doubly: Effect of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance and dual mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger
Research on employee harassment, in the form of workplace bullying, has increased over the past decade. However, there is little research on the prevalence and impact of cyberbullying, a type of cyber-related violence in the workplace. Thus, it would be interesting to examine the impact of cyberbull...
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| author | Nausheen Syed Nausheen Syed Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid Xin Su Misbah Hayat Bhatti |
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| description | Research on employee harassment, in the form of workplace bullying, has increased over the past decade. However, there is little research on the prevalence and impact of cyberbullying, a type of cyber-related violence in the workplace. Thus, it would be interesting to examine the impact of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance through the serial mediating effect of emotional exhaustion and anger. Drawing from the conservation of the resource theory and the affective event theory, this proposed study clarifies the mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger. The time lag approach was used to collect the data from the sample of 385 employees in the telecommunication sector of Pakistan. By employing SPSS and PLS, bootstrapping was performed to conduct the mediation analysis. Findings indicated that workplace cyberbullying increased interpersonal deviance by enhancing emotional exhaustion and anger. The current research contributes to the literature by considering the behavioral outcomes of workplace cyberbullying with the practical implications for human resource practitioners. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-264be47c743e43b48321d05bcb3c9d282022-12-22T04:16:48ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-11-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.941235941235Suffering doubly: Effect of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance and dual mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and angerNausheen Syed0Nausheen Syed1Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid2Xin Su3Misbah Hayat Bhatti4PUTRA Business School, Seri Kembangan, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Management Sciences, Government College Women University, Faisalabad, PakistanPUTRA Business School, Seri Kembangan, Selangor, MalaysiaSchool of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaDepartment of Management Sciences, Government College Women University, Faisalabad, PakistanResearch on employee harassment, in the form of workplace bullying, has increased over the past decade. However, there is little research on the prevalence and impact of cyberbullying, a type of cyber-related violence in the workplace. Thus, it would be interesting to examine the impact of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance through the serial mediating effect of emotional exhaustion and anger. Drawing from the conservation of the resource theory and the affective event theory, this proposed study clarifies the mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger. The time lag approach was used to collect the data from the sample of 385 employees in the telecommunication sector of Pakistan. By employing SPSS and PLS, bootstrapping was performed to conduct the mediation analysis. Findings indicated that workplace cyberbullying increased interpersonal deviance by enhancing emotional exhaustion and anger. The current research contributes to the literature by considering the behavioral outcomes of workplace cyberbullying with the practical implications for human resource practitioners.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.941235/fullworkplace bullyingemployee harassmentemotional exhaustionangerconservation of resource theoryaffective event theory |
| spellingShingle | Nausheen Syed Nausheen Syed Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid Xin Su Misbah Hayat Bhatti Suffering doubly: Effect of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance and dual mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger Frontiers in Psychology workplace bullying employee harassment emotional exhaustion anger conservation of resource theory affective event theory |
| title | Suffering doubly: Effect of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance and dual mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger |
| title_full | Suffering doubly: Effect of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance and dual mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger |
| title_fullStr | Suffering doubly: Effect of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance and dual mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger |
| title_full_unstemmed | Suffering doubly: Effect of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance and dual mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger |
| title_short | Suffering doubly: Effect of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance and dual mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger |
| title_sort | suffering doubly effect of cyberbullying on interpersonal deviance and dual mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and anger |
| topic | workplace bullying employee harassment emotional exhaustion anger conservation of resource theory affective event theory |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.941235/full |
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