Objective: Workplace violence is underreported, in part due to lack of trust in the system—an organization’s ability to protect victims’ safety, confidentiality, and dignity. We focus on military sexual assault—a form of workplace violence—aiming to (a) identify factors that relate to employee trust in the organization’s sexual assault response system and (b) determine how trust in this system (or lack thereof) is associated with well-being. Method: Participants were drawn from a representative sample of U.S. military personnel (542 victims of past-year sexual assault and a random sample of 1,000 individuals who did not experience sexual assault in the past year). Results: Trust differed by personal and organizational characteristics. Notably, trust was higher among men (vs. women), nonvictims (vs. past-year victims of sexual assault), members of the air force (vs. other service branches), and personnel who recalled comprehensive training related to sexual assault prevention and response (vs. minimal or no training). Further, lower trust in the system predicted lower work satisfaction and coworker satisfaction, more negative health perceptions, more greater symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress, and lower intent to remain on active duty. These negative outcomes emerged beyond the effects of past-year sexual assault and combat. Conclusions: Trust that an organization will protect employees’ safety, confidentiality, and dignity if they report violence is important to both mental and occupational health, for both victims and nonvictims alike. In short, workplace violence can be devastating and so can (non)responsiveness to violence by the larger institution.

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从不信任到困扰：军事性攻击，组织信任和职业健康之间的联系。

目标：工作场所暴力的报告不足，部分原因是对系统缺乏信任，该系统是组织保护受害者安全，机密和尊严的能力。我们专注于军事性侵犯（一种工作场所暴力），旨在（a）确定与员工对组织的性侵犯反应系统的信任有关的因素，以及（b）确定对该系统的信任（或缺乏信任）与福利。方法：参与者来自有代表性的美国军事人员样本（542名过去一年的性攻击受害者和1000名未曾在过去一年中遭受性攻击的人的随机样本）。结果：信任因个人和组织特征而异。值得注意的是，男性（对女性），非受害者（对性侵犯的过去受害者）的信任度更高，空军成员（相对于其他服务部门）以及召回与性侵害预防和反应相关的全面培训的人员（相对于基本培训或不培训）。此外，对系统的信任度较低会预示较低的工作满意度和同事满意度，对健康的负面看法更多，抑郁症和创伤后压力更大的症状以及现役意愿降低。这些负面结果超出了去年性攻击和战斗的影响。结论：相信如果员工举报暴力对雇员和非受害人均至关重要，那么该组织将保护员工的安全，保密和尊严。简而言之，工作场所的暴力行为可能是毁灭性的，大型机构对暴力行为的（非）反应也会如此。