Abstract

Bullying of medical residents is associated with numerous negative psychological and physiological outcomes. As bullying within this demographic grows, there is increased interest in identifying novel protective factors. Accordingly, this research investigated whether interpersonal forgiveness buffers the relationship between two forms of workplace bullying and indices of well-being. Medical residents (N = 134, 62% males) completed measures assessing person and work-related bullying victimization, dispositional forgiveness, and depressive symptoms and underwent a series of cardiovascular assessments during which cardiovascular reactivity was induced by a 3-min serial subtraction math task. It was hypothesized that the tendency to forgive would be negatively related to bullying victimization and that forgiveness would reduce the association of bullying with psychological distress (i.e. depressive symptoms), cognition errors (i.e. incorrect serial subtraction computations), and exaggerated cardiovascular reactivity and recovery. Findings show that forgiveness reduced the harmful relationship between the two forms of workplace bullying and depressive symptoms, serial subtraction errors, and cardiovascular reactivity and recovery for systolic blood pressure (SBP). Study results suggest that forgiveness may serve as an effective means for reducing the outcomes of bullying for medical residents. Implications for forgiveness interventions are discussed.

• Lay summary

• This research demonstrated that forgiveness reduced the harmful relationship between bullying victimization and negative outcomes (i.e. depressive symptoms, subtraction errors, and exaggerated cardiovascular reactivity and recovery for SBP) in medical residents. This study suggests that forgiveness may serve as a protective factor and provide an effective means for reducing the negative association between workplace bullying and negative outcomes.

摘要

欺凌医务人员会带来许多负面的心理和生理后果。随着这一人口统计学中欺凌行为的增长，人们对识别新型保护因素的兴趣日益浓厚。因此，本研究调查了人际宽恕是否缓冲了两种形式的工作场所欺凌与幸福指数之间的关系。住院医师（ñ = 134，其中62％为男性）完成了评估人和与工作有关的欺凌行为，性格宽恕和抑郁症状的措施，并进行了一系列心血管评估，在评估过程中，连续3分钟的减法数学任务诱发了心血管反应。据推测，宽恕的趋势与欺负受害负相关，宽恕将减少欺凌与心理困扰（即抑郁症状），认知错误（即不正确的连续减法计算）以及夸大的心血管反应和康复之间的联系。研究结果表明，宽恕减少了两种形式的工作场所欺凌和抑郁症状，连续减法错误，和心血管反应性以及收缩压（SBP）的恢复。研究结果表明，宽恕可能是减少医疗居民欺凌后果的有效手段。讨论了对宽恕干预的含义。

• 放置摘要

• 这项研究表明，宽恕减少了医疗居民中欺凌受害者和负面结果（即抑郁症状，减法错误以及过度的SBP心血管反应和康复）之间的有害关系。这项研究表明，宽恕可以作为保护因素，并为减少工作场所欺凌与负面结果之间的负面联系提供有效的手段。