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Published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 3/2014

01-04-2014 | Original Article

Workplace bullying and sleep difficulties: a 2-year follow-up study

Authors: Åse Marie Hansen, Annie Hogh, Anne Helene Garde, Roger Persson

Published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health | Issue 3/2014

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Abstract

Purpose

The aims of the present study were to investigate whether being subjected to bullying and witnessing bullying at the workplace was associated with concurrent sleep difficulties, whether frequently bullied/witnesses have more sleep difficulties than occasionally bullied/witnesses, and whether there were associations between being subjected to bullying or witnessing bullying at the workplace and subsequent sleep difficulties.

Methods

A total of 3,382 respondents (67 % women and 33 % men) completed a baseline questionnaire about their psychosocial work environment and health. The overall response rate was 46 %. At follow-up 2 years later, 1671 of those responded to a second questionnaire (49 % of the 3,382 respondents at baseline). Sleep difficulties were measured in terms of disturbed sleep, awakening problems, and poor quality of sleep.

Results

Bullied persons and witnesses reported more sleep difficulties than those who were neither bullied nor witnesses to bullying at baseline. Frequently bullied/witnesses reported more sleep difficulties than respondents who were occasionally bullied or witnessing bullying at baseline. Further, odds ratios for subsequent sleep difficulties were increased among the occasionally bullied, but not among witnesses. However, the associations weakened when adjusting for sleep difficulties at baseline.

Conclusion

Being subjected to occasional bullying at baseline was predictive of subsequent sleep difficulties. Witnessing bullying at baseline did not predict sleep difficulties at follow-up.
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Metadata
Title
Workplace bullying and sleep difficulties: a 2-year follow-up study
Authors
Åse Marie Hansen
Annie Hogh
Anne Helene Garde
Roger Persson
Publication date
01-04-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health / Issue 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0340-0131
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1246
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-013-0860-2

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