Archive for the ‘Bullying-Related Research’ Category
Health Leaders Media: When ’Mean Girls’ Wear Scrubs
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
By Alexandra Wilson Pecci, Health Leaders Media, May 28, 2013
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| Cheryl Dellasega, PhD, RN, CRNP |
For many nurses, leaving high school doesn’t mean leaving the bullies behind. Bullying has been called nursing’s “dirty little secret,” but judging by the numbers, it’s hard to believe it could be kept secret at all.
Most women can relate in some way to the 2004 Lindsay Lohan movie Mean Girls, in which her character encounters a group of bullying high school girls who say things like this: “Half the people in this room are mad at me, and the other half only like me because they think I pushed somebody in front a bus.”
But while most women can leave memories like this behind when they graduate from high school, for those who enter nursing and become victims of nurse-on-nurse bullying, leaving high school hasn’t made the mean girls disappear; they’re just wearing scrubs now.
Bullying has been called nursing’s “dirty little secret,” but judging by the numbers, it’s hard to believe it could be kept secret at all.
Twice as many nurses as other Americans have experienced bullying in the workplace. According to study of 612 staff nurses in the Journal of Nursing Management, 67.5% had experienced bullying from their supervisors, while 77.6% had been bullied by their co-workers. Compare that to the 35% of Americans outside healthcare who’ve reported workplace incivility, says the Workplace Bullying Institute.
Tags: Alexandra Wilson Pecci, Cheryl Dellasega, health leaders media, Journal of Nursing Management, mean girls, toxic nursing, workplace bullying, Workplace Bullying Institute
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Research: Employers conned by bullies with political skills
Monday, May 27th, 2013
Most research on workplace bullying uses bullied targets as participants. That is true of our online studies here at WBI. Those are the people who visit the website and can complete surveys. When we do national surveys, we contract with pollsters who can randomly sample Americans so we can draw conclusions about the entire population. Research on, or about, bullies is rare.
Now comes a clever new study (Treadway, et al. 2013 — see below for full citation) that investigates the relationship between bullies’ perceived political skill and perceptions of the bullies’ job performance.
Tags: Gary Namie, job performance, political skill, Treadway, workplace bullying
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Research: Victim selection criteria by criminals
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Workplace bullying in the U.S. is not yet illegal by civil or criminal law. Mugging another person is criminal. In a new study, convicted criminals in prison (not your typical workplace bully by any measure) demonstrated their ability to recognize who in a group was a prior victim and who they would most likely pick to mug and steal from and why they selected that person. The analogy to bullying incidents would apply only to the most violent predator-type bullies (bordering on psychopaths who number 1 in 100 executives) who victimize their targets in ways that approach criminality. However, the general premise that perpetrators rely on physical nonverbal cues to select their targets/victims certainly must play a part, however slight, in workplace bullying incidents.
Tags: Angela Book, body language, gait, Gary Namie, nonverbal communication, prisoners, psychopaths, target selection, victim selection, vulnerability, walk, workplace bullying
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Time for a POTUS for the poor — a revolutionary American idea
Monday, March 18th, 2013
I’m not Catholic. I’m sickened by child abuse by priests committed secretly under cover of archbishops’ robes for decades. I found the saturation media coverage of the Sistine Chapel chimney mis-prioritized. And I thought the pomp of pope selection process distracted everyone from the scandals boiling in the Vatican. However, the elevation of Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio to Pope Francis I, inspires optimism — even mine.
In November 2000, as Argentina’s economic crisis escalated, then Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio spoke for a conference of bishops when he attacked economic neoliberalism. Writing for Dissent, Mark Engler translated the bishops’ statement as describing the true debt of Argentina as “social,” not financial. It blasted the
“growing gap between rich and poor … negative aspects of globalization … the tyranny of the markets … We live in world in which the primacy of economics, without a base of reference in … the common good, impedes the resurgence of many nations … To accustom ourselves to living in a world of exclusion and inequality is a serious moral failure that erodes the dignity of mankind and compromises peace and social harmony.”
Tags: A Future Without Poverty, Catholic chruch, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Cornel West, families in poverty, Jesuit order, Jorge Bergoglio, National Poverty Center, poor, Pope Francis, poverty, President Obama, Tavis Smiley, Vision for a New America, working poor
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CNN & Minn Star Tribune: Teachers targeted by student bullies
Monday, March 11th, 2013
Two articles with downloadable reports about the disturbing trend, and least discussed aspect, of school bullying — students bullying their adult teachers.
Edina Teacher Settles for $100,000, Resigns by: Mary Jane Smetanka, Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 24, 2011
When Teachers Are the Bully’s Target by Stephanie Goldberg, CNN Schools of Thought Blog, March 11, 2013
Tags: Deborah York, Dorothy Espelage, K-12 students, teachers, teachers as targets, workplace bullying
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Research: Youth bullying effects invade young adulthood
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Longitudinal studies of the effects of childhood bullying are rare. Now comes a study of western North Carolina children — ages 9, 11 and 13 — and their parents/caregivers begun in 1993 with 6674 annual interviews of 1420 participants through adolescence (9-16 years of age). Then, 3184 interviews were completed in 2010, 18 years later, when the children were ages 19, 21 and 24-26 years old. Over 80% of the original group of children was tracked into young adulthood.
Children and parents reported whether or not within 3 months of the annual interviews (assessments) they were victims of bullying, bullies or had been both bully and victim (bully/victim).
According to the study, victims and bully/victims differed from children not involved in bullying in family background and psychological functioning factors. Victims are described as withdrawn, unassertive, easily emotionally upset, and as having poor emotional or social understanding, whereas bully/victim tend to be aggressive, easily angered, and frequently bullied by their siblings. Thus bully/victims have few friends who would stand up for them. They are the “henchmen or reinforcers” for bullies and the most troubled children.
The prevalence of bullying victims in childhood and adolescence was 26.1% (at least once), 8.9% (repeatedly). Though boys were more frequent targets than girls (28.8% vs. 23.4%), the sexes were statistically equivalent. Bullying in childhood (23.5% for 9-13 year olds), the frequency was halved in adolescence (10.2%).
Overall, 5% were bullies only, 21.6% were victims only, 4.5% were bully/victims, and 68.9% were neither. Of the bully/victims, more were males (72% vs. 48% female). Of the bullies, more were males (69% vs. 48% female).
Family assessment interviews collected information about family hardships — low socioeconomic status, unstable family structure, family dysfunction, and maltreatment. Diagnoses of several psychiatric disorders were made during childhood. If a problem appeared in childhood, it was revisited when the participants were in their 20′s for the follow-up. Adult psychiatric outcomes were assessed using the Young Adult Psychiatric Assessment (YAPA) (developed at Duke Univ.).
Tags: childhood bullying, Copeland, Health harm from bullying, JAMA, longitudinal research, psychiatric disorders
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Research: Impact of abusive supervision — direct and vicarious
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
A new academic study is added to the burgeoning research literature related to workplace bullying. It explores the impact of both direct and indirect (vicarious) exposure to bullying bosses.
Kenneth J. Harris , Paul Harvey , Ranida B. Harris & Melissa Cast (2013): An Investigation of Abusive Supervision, Vicarious Abusive Supervision, and Their Joint Impacts, The Journal of Social Psychology, 153:1, 38-50.
The most impressive aspect of the study was a credible and clever technique to recruit survey respondents. Rather than rely on the opinions of young college students with very limited real world work experience, the researchers asked employed students taking a management course to ask fellow employees to complete the survey as long as respondents worked in organizations with more than 10 workers and who worked full-time. The resulting sample included 233 individuals with an average age of 42.61 years, a group capable of evaluating real workplace incidents.
Tags: abusive supervision, Gary Namie, impact on bullied targets, job frustration, Kenneth Harris, Paul Harvey, perceived organizational support, vicarious abusive supervision, workplace bullying
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Life expectancy longest for the richest in America
Friday, January 25th, 2013
The richest and most powerful Americans — corporate titans — are working together to deprive the oldest and poorest Americans of a social safety net created in the 1930′s — Social Security — and extended in the 1960′s — Medicare and Medicaid. Shamelessly making the false connection between SS and the national deficit, the corporate front group, Fix the Debt, wants to “reform” the two indispensable programs for the elderly sick and poor. One suggestion is to raise the retirement age to beyond age 65. Reformers glibly state “everyone is living longer.” Turns out to not be true.
Tags: deprivation index, epidemiology, Gary Namie, Gopal Singh, life expectancy, Mohammad Siahpush, retirement age, social security
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Texas Mediator: Mediation inappropriate for Workplace Bullying cases
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
No Mediation for Workplace Bullying
by Esque Walker, Ph.D., Texas Certified Distinguished Mediator
Mediation is an inappropriate alternative in cases involving any type of abuse or violence such as domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, school or workplace bullying.
The victims or targets in these situations are at a disadvantage and are subjected to further abuse.
Mediation is a process in which disputing parties with the assistance of a third party, the mediator, come together in an attempt to resolve their differences in an acceptable manner (win/win) to both parties. The mediation process assumes that all parties involved in the mediation are “sufficiently capable” of negotiating and reaching a mediated agreement with each other as equals in the process. In cases involving workplace bullying or any type of family violence, this is a false assumption; individuals experiencing abuse, violence, or similar interactions are disempowered their ability to deal effectively with their abusers are diminished.
When the mediation process was designed, it was not intended to or structured to deal with the complexity of workplace bullying or other forms of violence.
Tags: Esque Walker, government mediation, Healthy Workplace Bill, inapprorpriate ADR, mediation, WBI survey, workplace bullying
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MDMA-Ecstasy Drug Makes Psychotherapy Effective in Treating PTSD
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Whether a person is traumatized by sexual abuse, crime, war or the workplace, their resulting posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be resistant to traditional psychotherapy. A breakthrough alternative may be on the horizon — methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in pure form combined with psychotherapy. According to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which funded the research, MDMA is not the same as Ecstasy. Substances sold on the street under the name Ecstasy do often contain MDMA, but frequently also contain ketamine, caffeine, BZP, and other narcotics and stimulants.
A randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study of twenty-one individuals with treatment-resistant PTSD was conducted by Michael Mithoefer, M.D. with co-therapist Ann Mithoefer, B.S.N. in Charleston, SC. The early phase was completed in 2008 with results published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology in 2010.
Over three years later, the long-term follow up was completed by the research-clinicians. The positive benefits from the MDMA + psychotherapy protocol lasted for 17 of 20 individuals available for the study. They reported minor to no symptoms. New life stressors caused relapse for the others. The follow-up study also appeared in the Journal of Psychopharmacology on Nov. 10, 2012.
Tags: Doblin, Ecstasy, MAPS, MDMA, Mithoefer, PTSD treatment
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